Wall Street Journal Reporters: “We Need Real Broadband.”
SAN JOSE, CA - I bring your attention to an article published in MacWorld today by Robert Mullins entitled, “YouTube Generation Needs More Broadband.” Mullins quotes Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg as saying, “We need real broadband.” He then added that the broadband network in the U.S. is “pathetic” compared to that of other countries. In related news, please read Cisco’s Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo’s op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on this topic here.
In the Macworld article, Mossberg’s colleague at the Journal and fellow technology columnist, Kara Swisher, is quoted as saying, “"The government has got to get behind this, like it did with the public highways.”
Giancarlo offered a few prescriptions for how to work on the broadband issue in the U.S., but I would also draw your attention to TechNet’s broadband announcement and challenge put forth in 2002 by Cisco CEO John Chambers. See News@Cisco story here. See the TechNet Broadband Principles here.
You can read the full Macworld story here.
OECD Data on worldwide broadband penetration and rankings is here. (As of June 2006.)
Is momentum building for a national broadband plan in the U.S.? Maybe a 2008 presidential candidate should make this a key pillar of his/her platform. Any takers?
Posted by John Earnhardt at 05:16PM PST
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