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To: LindyBill who wrote (109611)	4/16/2005 9:26:46 AM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793818

Bill, By outdoing the United States, Japan and its neighbors are positioning themselves to be the first states to reap the benefits of the broadband era: economic growth, increased productivity, and a better quality of life. BS. In the early 90's Japan did the same thing with ISDN and spent billions making every home reachable. France built out an ISP connection to every home. We were going to fall behind and die according to the pundits. What happened? State sponsored IT pushes didn't work. Look at GDP growth between Japan, France and the US from 1990 to today. The data speaks for itself. What these articles represent is industry envious of the feeding trough that exists in other countries trying to catch us :-) What does Japan do with all the bandwidth? Play games, send photos and such and what has their GDP done lately? I think its actually been pretty flat. You could interpret that high penetration of broadband inhibits growth :-) Makes me feel like a pusher! John

To: LindyBill who wrote (109611)	4/16/2005 12:05:04 PM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793818

Today, most U.S. homes can access only "basic" broadband, among the slowest, most expensive, and least reliable in the developed world, and the United States has fallen even further behind in mobile-phone-based Internet access. The lag is arguably the result of the Bush administration's failure to make a priority of developing these networks. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized state without an explicit national policy for promoting broadband The real shame is that munipalities are attempting to fill the market failure with munipal broadband, and the big providers are lobbying hard (and suing hard) to stop them. Derek