Broadband

Esme Vos MuniWireless writes:

"The conventional wisdom among my friends who are Net Neutrality fanatics is that a change of regime will finally bring about tough net neutrality legislation, ushering in a Golden Age of cutthroat competition in the US market for broadband services, leading to faster speeds, lower monthly costs for Internet access, no throttling, no deep packet inspection, no blocking of applications and so on...."

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No matter party is "in" , it seems there is little really done to end the buying and selling of legislation.

Thanks to Chuck Sherwood for this:

You've
helped highlight just how little progress the U.S. is making in
high-speed Internet, and you can help push lawmakers to start turning
the situation around.

More than 230,000 of you took the speedmatters.org Speed Test over the
past twelve months. Today we released the second annual state-by-state
report on Internet speeds.

http://www.speedmatters.org/pages/state.html

The Speed Test, which measures the last-mile speed of your Internet
connection, shows that the 2008 median real-time download speed in the
U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). This represents a gain of
only 0.4 mbps over last year's median download speed. It compares to an
average download speed in Japan of 63 mbps. At this rate of progress, it
will take the U.S. more than 100 years to catch up with current Inernet
speeds in Japan. This is unacceptable for the country that invented the
Internet.

http://www.speedmatters.org/pages/state.html

The test results demonstrate the critical need for the U.S. to adopt a
comprehensive national broadband policy. As a first step, the Senate
should pass the Broadband Data Improvement Act (S.1492), a crucial piece
of legislation that will help our nation determine which parts of the
country have high-speed access and which do not. The bill would also
provide funding to states to increase broadband deployment and adoption.

Write your Senators and tell them you strongly support this bill:

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/s1492/iw3e3ux2a75n78t6?

The House of Representatives passed similar legislation last fall. It's
long past time for the Senate to act. The Broadband Data Improvement Act
will provide the research and the funding to help make sure every
American has affordable, high-speed Internet access. With an already
struggling economy, we can't afford to continue falling behind in high
speed broadband.

We need your help in the critical effort. Write a note to your Senators now:

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/s1492/iw3e3ux2a75n78t6?

Thank you for all your help in the fight for affordable high speed
Internet for all.

Sincerely,

Beth Allen
speedmatters.org Online Mobilization Coordinator