This seems to have the potential to affect Internet Access rules,broadband penetration and the interaction of the people with government.
Most of it sounds good, and very Anti-Establishment.The plans seem more along the lines of doing what is good for citizens, rather than necessarily protecting the interests of corporations. Certainly a state/country run Wireless broadband network, and ubiquitous broadband as easily obtained as rabbit ear TV stations or phone service would threaten some providers, or force them to provide proper Value Added Service. If he sticks to his "Broadband' promise, then we're talking at least 1MB/s otherwise it's just Internet Access which would not be able to carry live streaming video from town meetings etc. It would be interesting to see if he can get around the Corporatocracy which has held America at a lowly 15th out of 30 ranked industrial countries in the world for citizens with Internet Access. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/12/style/otech.php Hopefully, if this happens, the ideas will trickle down as well to other nations int he hemisphere. One can hope that not only the draconian (copyright law changes) changes carry over! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280254 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
