now this is broadband…

Published August 23rd, 2007 in Politics.

The above screenshot was taken at a colocation facility.

… unfortunately this kind of speed is totally unaffordable at home, at least in this country. Thanks so much, dear politicians and FCC - your deregulation policies and over $200 billion worth of subsidies to the big telcos have brought us… ‘broadband’ that is slow and overpriced. I say we demand the money back, use some of it to buy one of the big telcos - Verizon’s market capitalization is only $112 billion, hmmm - and build out some *real* broadband infrastructure with the rest of the money.

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