On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Report: US falling further behind on broadband speeds, reach
By John Timmer | Published: August 14, 2008 - 08:00PM CT
What's going on at Ars Technica? After noting that at current rates of
increase it will take 100 years for the US to catch up with Japan's
current level of service, Ars Technica then gos on to disparage the
report.
They sort of disparaged the report by making sure that the reader
understood that there could be some bias involved, but then admitted
that their own evaluations basically supported the conclusions of the
communications workers. In fact, it is quite well known that we have
been getting the butt end of the broadband deal for a long time.
Ars Technica suggests that the study is biased because the data
was collected by communication workers (Instead of who? Cloistered
nuns?)
Ars Technica then claims that people are "simply uninterested" in
getting
better broadband. (Perhaps they got that from John McCain?) Very, very
odd for a tech zine.
I think that they may mean that people are "simply uninterested"
in getting better broadband because the public assumes that anything
that is significantly better than what is currently available will be
too costly to afford. Without more and better competition, that is
absolutely true.
Steve
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