[asterisk-biz] Off Topic, but related to our industry --> http://www.saschameinrath.com/2006jan31the_200_billion_broadband_scandal_aka_wheres_my_45mb_i_already_paid_for_it

[M O]

Hello,
  
  
  This is NOT Asterisk related, but I think most of you will chime in on this
  as being true/false.  Just curious what the Asterisk-Biz list thinks :)
  
  New investigative ebook offers micro-history of Verizon, SBC, Qwest,  and BellSouth’s (the Bell companies) fiber optic broadband promises and  the consequence harms to America’s economic growth because they never  delivered and kept most of the money, about $200 billion.  New York: This is one of the largest scandals in American history.  America is 16th in the world in broadband and the US DSL current  offerings are 100 times slower than other countries such has Japan and  Korea. How did we go from Number 1 in the web to 16th in broadband and  falling?
  But more importantly, are customers owed $2000 for a fiber optic  service they paid for but never received? Did towns and cities,  libraries and schools, government agencies, and every residential and  business customer subsidize new networks that never showed up?
  And did America lose $5 trillion in economic growth, $500 billion annually, because of these missing networks?
  Broadband Scandals is a well-documented expose, 406 pages and 528  footnotes. Using the phone companies' own words (and well as other  sources), the book outlines a massive nationwide scandal that affects  every aspect of state of the Internet. Not only the web but broadband,  municipalities laying fiber or building wifi networks, not to mention  related issues such as such as VOIP, cable services, the cost of local  phone service, net neutrality, the new digital divide, and even  America's economic growth.
  
  To read more, go here please and thanks:
  
  http://www.saschameinrath.com/2006jan31the_200_billion_broadband_scandal_aka_wheres_my_45mb_i_already_paid_for_it
  
  Martin O'Shield
  
		
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