***a Cut & paste from the SI New FC Message Board)***
Dell's CEO says we need fiber to advance the consumer electronics industry. He notes, "YouTube today consumes as much bandwidth as the entire Internet consumed in the year 2000."
An Excerpt from Michael Dell's Keynote Speech at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, from the February 2007 issue of Broadband Properties Magazine:
"Consistently, customers tell us they want to use their digital content around the home, and the PC is at the center of that. In fact, consumers 40 and under say that the PC is their most important device, ahead of both the cell phone and the television. For at least the past six years, the digital home has been a very hot topic at CES, but it really hasn't quite caught on, and I think for 2 reasons: The first is that broadband isn't really where it needs to be for a robust
online experience."
"You can already get 100 Mbps in Denmark, Japan, Romania, Iceland, Slovenia, Dubai, parts of Kuwait, and in cities like Paris and Prague. In fact, in Iceland, you can get it for $26 a month. Here in the U.S., broadband penetration is just 44 percent, with fiber to the home being just one percent of that. So there's a lot of opportunity to improve this."
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