You hear a lot in the media about how the U.S. is a "mature" broadband market and how we need only to fill in the gaps in broadband network coverage to provide a globally competitive connectivity infrastructure.
Sounds great, but the reality is very different. In comparison with the leading broadband environments in the world, we are a slow backwater.
Only here could someone offer as a cost-effective alternative dial-up services with good compression algorithms overloaded on a narrowband circuit. Only here could service providers claim that 256kb/sec asymmetric DSL service is "world-class broadband."
My 3G cell phone does better than that, at least for data, at about the same price.
Continued at CIO Insight
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