In an article entitled "Broadband Baloney" in the Wall Street Journal today, Robert McDowell, a Commissioner on the FCC stated:
"Criticisms of our definition of "broadband" being too lax are already irrelevant as over 50 million subscribers are in the 1.5 to 3.0 megabits-per-second "fast lane."" That my friends, is EXACTLY what the problem is: 1.5 to 3mb FAST LANE???? Who are they trying to kid? Then he goes on to say: "Today, video applications are tugging hard on America's broadband infrastructure. YouTube alone uses as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet did in 2000. Not surprisingly, our broadband adoption rate continues to increase concurrently with the proliferation of this latest "killer app."" He talks about how much of a push video is, even citing that it eats up a large amount of bandwidth, but is insistent on 1.5 to 3 Mb being fast? I don't get it. The article sums up why he thinks that all this talk about us lagging behind in the broadband proliferation table is "Broadband Baloney".. boo I say. The fact that the WSJ would print this is baloney. Article is here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118524094434875755.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Drew Lentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 956.878.0123 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to see your advertisement here? Let the WISPA Board know your feelings about allowing advertisements on the free WISPA lists. The current Board is taking this under consideration at this time. We want to know your thoughts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
