[HAL9000]

I do not understand, what is the problem here?

Our telecommunications infrastructure is too slow and unreliable compared to many of the nations we are competing with.

Osama bin Laden has better Internet service in his cave that many Americans can get today.

[DB]

Can get?

You can get satellite service with 1 Mbps rates for $70 a month virtually anywhere in the country. Yes, there’s definite issues with satellite service but it does work.

Areas of the country that are relatively flat often have terrestrial based wireless Internet services and are significantly less expensive than satellite and perform better. When spectrum currently used for TV is freed up those services are likely to expand.

[Publius6961]

Osama bin Laden has better Internet service in his cave that many Americans can get today.

Muslim humor?
I dint know you were muslim!

Just saying.

[R. Scott]

I assume Osama uses satellite access. I have it available, but don’t find it that much better than the cable access I now use.

[jveritas]

Come on HAL9000. I have been in Europe and many other place I did not see that they have better internet services. The Americans have more access to the internet than anywhere in the world. Why do you think that “internet cafe” are so popular around Europe and the rest of the world? Because many people there do not have computers and do not have access to the internet at home.

I have Comcast Cable and it is very fast and I do not need anything faster; and now Verizon fiber optics internet is breaking into the market which is extremely fast as well.