"Ubiquitous Affordable High-Speed Internet with Amenity Wifi" - quite a mouthful. How about
Fight for your Internet: Fast. Ubiquitous. Affordable. Open. --- Dana Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > posted at http://www.wirelesscommunity.info/2006/03/15/stop-using- > broadband/ > > Stop using Broadband > > No, I don't mean that you should cancel your high-speed internet > connection. What I mean is: Stop using the term "broadband". > > I think that we need to change how we argue our points against the > teleco and cable monopolies. You see, "Broadband" isn't the internet. > > Its just a way to get access to the internet. Most other countries > understand this, but in the USA, we're so blinded by the marketing > and PR of our Telco and Cable companies, that instead of pushing for > > high-speed access to the internet, something that should be available > > to everyone (you should especially know this if you read this blog!), > > we're talking about "Universal Broadband". > > "Universal Broadband" has a great ring to it. But its wrong. > Broadband is a marketing term that has been co-opted by Telco and > Cable companies to mean whatever "high-speed" network *they* provide. > > And this is where things get confused. We're starting to see > legislation that promotes "Universal Broadband", which is good in > theory. But when we phrase it like that, we're implicitly promoting > certain ways to get high-speed internet access. In effect, we're > using legislation and our own PR efforts to market for the type of > crappy, slow, restricted internet access that our Telco and Cable > companies offer. > > *Instead, we should be pushing for and talking about "High-speed > Internet", high-speed connections to that cloud of services and > content that we're all providing for each other, in whatever form > makes sense to you, the end user.* In many cases, it will be > broadband dsl and broadband cablemodem service. But it might also me > > your local municipal or private Wi-Fi network, or satellite-based > service. Or something we haven't thought of yet. > > Dana Spiegel > Executive Director > NYCwireless > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.NYCwireless.net > +1 917 402 0422 > > Read the Wireless Community blog: http://www.wirelesscommunity.info > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
