It's May 14, 2024, 07:35:24 PM
From Foreign Affairs Magazine.In the first three years of the Bush administration, the United States dropped from 4th to 13th place in global rankings of broadband Internet usage. Today, most U.S. homes can access only "basic" broadband, among the slowest, most expensive, and least reliable in the developed world, and the United States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access. The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting broadband.It did not have to be this way. Until recently, the United States led the world in Internet development.____This has a huge effect on competitive advantage in America. Large organizations now share massive amounts of data between plants and often have to pay large sums of money for adequate bandwidth. My friend serves in the NAVY and lives in Japan... he was surprised to find that he had instant access to 5 mbps DL speeds. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050501faessay84311/thomas-bleha/down-to-the-wire.html
if you read the article it talks about how during the past four years the US went from being a world leader to being surpassed in Broadband capabilities by Japan. The Japanese system was not created by the US. Our system is horribly inefficient. Just to get 10 mbps its about 1,000 a month where I live. In Japan, I dbled checked with my friend, he spends about $25 a month for 10 mbps. Is this all Bush's fault? nah, but it happened on his watch... but really its a nonpartisan issue just trying to bring to light the fact that for all we brag about American superiority there are things were others have far surpassed us.