'Last month a bill was introduced in the Kansas legislature, pushed by the Kansas Cable Telecommunications Association and presumably Time Warner Cable, to outlaw cities from selling cable and Internet services or even partnering with private service providers. Meanwhile, AT&T is slowing Google Fiber deployment in Austin by denying access to its utility poles. The incumbents' strategy seems to be kill the demon seed in its crib.'
That would be nice.
But I remember downloading songs off Napster at 3.5 kb/second back in the day. If it got up to 5 kb I thought I was zooming! Then 20-30 minutes later I had a “free” song. Brings back memories.
So with that in mind I don’t complain too much about 15 mb/second.
Google started their fiber service in Kansas City, KS. Have they expanded to Kansas City, MO already?
It’s always the same: incumbents who have the most to lose resist change. The makers of buggy-whips are still upset that automobiles were allowed to use the roads...
Change takes time. Things can happen that speed up the process but whining to your Congressman isn’t one of them.
As age slowly puts the brakes on the ol' sensory receptors, I'll prolly recall dialup for a moment, and opt for letting the current 'pretty fast' be fast enough . . .
It’s slow because Algore is focused on other things and cannot dedicate time to invent it.
Why bother? They’ll just clog the bandwidth with more ads and pop-ups.
Here in the UK, you have some choice. British Telecom is required to sell capacity on its lines to other companies, so theoretically, there a many DSL providers in any area. If you’re in a Virgin Media Cable area, you get either Cable Modem or Fibre Optic. My area has Fibre and we get 120Mb speeds for £29/MO, unlimited use. It’s so much faster than DSL or Cable was back in the States.
Pete Townsend is definitely not the guy you want to start off an article about Teh Intarwebz.
Boo-fricking-hoo.
I could ask "Where the heck is my basic DSL or cable?"
A U.S. Fed Gov 2010 survey found that 40% of US residents do not have broadband internet.
I happen to be part of that 40%.
No DSL. No cable.
So, forgive me if I have no sympathy for those whining about not have "super-fast" internet. The author should consider him/herself fortunate to have any type of broadband.
/end rant