http://www.briankaneonline.com/2008/01/18/a-big-fat-one-way-pipe/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.briankaneonline.com/2008/01/18/a-big-fat-one-way-pipe/comment-page-1/#comment-841 GoingLikeSixty Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:19:40 +0000 http://www.briankaneonline.com/2008/01/18/a-big-fat-one-way-pipe/#comment-841 The U.S. is so friggin' far behind the rest of the world on broadband speeds it should be embarrassing. Instead, the lawmakers are bragging about the penetration of "broadband." What makes that embarrassing is that they consider DSL as broadband, and the FCC has no definition of the term. Dopes. Then we have the cablecos pulling stunts like you describe. You watch, somehow this "internet thing" will get screwed up in the U.S. and all our technology jobs will leave just like manufacturing. The U.S. is so friggin’ far behind the rest of the world on broadband speeds it should be embarrassing. Instead, the lawmakers are bragging about the penetration of “broadband.” What makes that embarrassing is that they consider DSL as broadband, and the FCC has no definition of the term.
Dopes.
Then we have the cablecos pulling stunts like you describe.
You watch, somehow this “internet thing” will get screwed up in the U.S. and all our technology jobs will leave just like manufacturing.

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