Just a personal note here to let y’all know that I will be live-blogging the coming Freedom2Connect conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 2-3. That coverage will be featured right here, at www.danablankenhorn.com and 200billionscandal.typepad.com. Edited stories from the even will be featured at Open Source, the blog I produce for ZDNet. I hope […]
There is an enormous opportunity here for competitors like Level 3 and Google to set up competing access networks throughout Verizon's service territory. All they need to do is advertise "Real Internet Service" and explain what that means, then write it into their contracts.
Until we recognize that the key to the future lies in the new, not the old, these companies (China, India, Brazil) will continue to pass us. We will be left in the dustbin of history. And we will deserve that fate.
The only remaining question is how long Americans will allow the experiment to go on until they learn the lesson, overthrow the oppressors, and return this nation to the path of its Founders. One year? Three years? And what will be left of this country at the end?
Somewhere, in the remotest portion of one of India's remotest and poorest provinces, a family is soon going to be surfing the Net faster than you, in a competitive market, for less money.
So long as tower companies are independent of cellular carriers, there is an incentive for competition.
The action is in wireless, in making sure that unlicensed spectrum is healthy, growing, and can become real competition.
The link between steroids and the American failure was not remarked upon by the American press. And that is the biggest scandal of all.
It's not just that bands can create their own demand, with Web sites, with sites like MySpace, it's that individual entrepreneurs now have the opportunity to create demand outside the publishers' system.
The state of your Internet is the state of your economy. The more bandwidth you have, the more readily available it is, the richer you are. The less you have, the less available it is, the poorer you are. This is true for corporations, for nations, for individuals.
