I am not surprised that US Lags World In Broadband Access, And the FCC's is at fault.

The cable Co. and the phone Co. don't provide Broadband Access for my house. Seems if I lived in England or even China this would not be the case. The real solution is to bypass the monopoly ISP's and use a grid of Radios to make up the local network. If the FCC had not outlawed the use of WiFi with a 10 to 15Km range we would not have all the problems we have now. I have my FON router and no place to go... But God bless the local Pizza place with the open AP. That's where you will find me. Yummm love that Gyro.

In case you didn't know the original Ethernet protocols where based on the ALOHAnet, a radio network at the University of Hawaii, that communicate across the campus from island to island. The bandwidth plan that Apple Computer proposed to the FCC way back in 1995 included hundreds of 10Mb channels in the Gigahertz bands. Here is the PETITION FOR RULEMAKING of the "NII BAND". The US would be a different place with an Internet freedom we currently do not enjoy.

Since then this radio bandwidth has been given out to cell phone companies that charge us the big bucks to use. So rather then to progress into the 21st century the FCC keeping us back in the dark 20th century w/ out open Internet access. Most Highways don't have toll booths any more why should the Internet. At least the FCC should not be giving the airwaves away to corporations that simply want to take a buck.

Here is some history of things the FCC took away from us.

Don't forget that Al Gore was Vice president then. He was Inventing the Internet for us back then. So you can see what a mess he left us with to clean up. Just think what he would do to Global Warming. It boggles the mind.