Slower and more expensive than the rest of the world: U.S. Internet access
doesn’t have to be that way.
Bob knows about our Internet issues here and is interested in helping.
Chunka Mul wrote for Forbes 26 April 2013,
The Lunacy of Our Internet Access, and How Google Fiber Could Provide Needed Shock Therapy,
Imagine you are the world’s largest operator of shopping malls, and
shoppers can only get to your malls via the equivalent of dirt paths
and country roads. What’s more, those meager routes are all
controlled by an oligopoly of private, toll-road operators that
focus on their profitability, not on getting consumers to the stores
in your malls.The result would be a mess. The roads would be slow yet expensive.
Consumers would limit shopping trips. The stores in your malls would
have a hard time generating business, so your malls would languish.Yet the entire online economy runs on an analogous network. The
network could easily be lightning fast, pervasive and cheap (or even
free). Instead,