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ON A SMALL STEP FORWARD FOR U.S. BROADBAND

Posted on June 18, 2008

SPOT OF SUN-LIGHTBroadband consumers in the U.S., have had a spate of bad news, both on the wired and wireless fronts in the past year. If you haven't been keeping track, let me count some of the ways:Our world rank in the provision of broadband relative to the price paid, has slipped to the mid-teens in recent years.The wired and wireless broadband providers are experimenting with putting caps on the amount of bandwidth consumed by their customers at given price points. In fact, most of the wireless broadband providers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint et al, have already started to put on caps ...

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