Baller Herbst List: 4-24-07
NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY
The great Adlai Stevenson once observed that
Americans can't read the writing on the wall
until their backs are up against it. How much
worse must things get for the America before
we start to take seriously the need to develop
a national broadband strategy and concrete
action plans to implement it? Please reread
our 8-step plan in the light of today's news.
-- JB and CL
baller.com
US drops another 3 notches -- from 12th to 15th
-- in OECD broadband deployment ranking
oecd.org
Commr. Copps calls for national broadband
strategy: "Every year brings more bad news
as the United States slides farther down the
broadband rankings. It's a national embarrass-
ment and the only way to change it is to dev-
elop a broadband strategy like every other
industrialized nation has already done. These
rankings aren't a beauty contest -- they're
about our competiiveness is a country and
creating economic opportunity for all our
people. Bringing high-speed broadband to
every corner of the country is the central
infrastructure challenge we face. Always
in the past, our nation found ways to stay
ahead of everyone else in building infra-
structure like turnpikes, railroads and high-
ways. Now, in broadband, we're not even
an also-ran." (from Benton Foundation)
hraunfoss.fcc.gov
Free Press renews call for national broadband
strategy
freepress.net
Benton Foundation releases two new research
papers "highlighting the international, inno-
vative policy approaches that have propelled
other countries into positions of broadband
leadership."
benton.org
benton.org
benton.org
"U.S. broadband penetration just stinks"
webpronews.com
Cable industry calls OECD broadband statistics
"misleading," insists everything is fine
dslreports.com
1/3 of Japan's broadband subscribers now
use FTTH
soumu.go.jp
BROADBAND
More on Verizon's threats to halt FiOS deploy-
ment in Mass.
dslreports.com
"FiOS expands in Virginia"
quantel.broadcastnewsroom.com
"PON: The architecture of control"
isen.com
WIRELESS
City of London Wi-Fi activated
news.yahoo.com
muniwireless.com
Wilkes-Barre, PA accepting bids for citywide
wireless service
zwire.com
"[I]t’s becoming clear that networks need
to be built for a variety of specific uses like
public safety, or smartly targeted at a popu-
lation that will actually utilize Wi-Fi services.
It’s not as easy as ‘build it and they will come.’"
gigaom.com
More on Portland, OR municipal Wi-Fi testing
muniwireless.com
Beaverton, OR deploys municipal broadband
wireless for public safety
home.businesswire.com
Media Access Project releases studies
pointing to anti-competitive behavior by
incumbents during AWS auction
multichannel.com
Sprint's plans for WiMAX home base stations
unstrung.com
VIDEO
"China IPTV market ready to bust out?"
telephonyonline.com
OTHER NEWS
"I spent over two and a half hours of my
Saturday night with the nice Verizon people.
Party animals, not. Educational experience,
not. Redeeming social value, unfortunately,
severely limited. I did learn that Verizon
trouble tickets could be closed without the
problem being fixed, and conversely, tickets
could remain open even when the problem
was resolved."
isen.com
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