"For years, plenty of folks (including the Government Accountability Office) have been pointing out that the way the FCC <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070205/165735.shtml> measures broadband competition is very flawed. It simply assumes that if a single household in a zip code is offered broadband by provider A, then every household in that zip code can get broadband from provider A. See the problem? For some reason
<soapbox> This gets old. They say the US is way behind. Really? I think they are comparing apples to oranges. Do all they rural farms in Australia have broadband? All the rural areas in China? Even S. Korea, one of the most wired countries, do they have broadband in all there rural areas? Sure its great in there metro areas but so is it here in the US. The only reason this upsets me is we are investing a great deal of our own money building out to these underserved areas. I can just see some report coming out then the government giving some grants to telcos or whoever to bury fiber or whatever at huge expense to every rural house in the country side. What I find really irritating is I/we pay taxes too and will be getting the shaft. Its difficult to compete with fiber with a 900 Canopy SM. </soapbox> Matt -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
