[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

[Steve Totaro]

Just wait until google lights up all the dark fiber.  We will be numer 1
again.
 
Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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dal_aka_wheres_my_45mb_i_already_paid_for_it
	
	
	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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