Free American broadband! The Problems with Broadband in America...

[mandy]

Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most Japanese consumers can get an Internet connection that's 16 times faster than the typical American DSL line for a mere $22 per month.

Across the globe, it's the same story. In France, DSL service that is 10 times faster than the typical United States connection; 100 TV channels and unlimited telephone service cost only $38 per month...

While other countries are taking advantage of the technological, business and education opportunities of the broadband era, America remains lost in transition.

How did this happen? Why has the U.S. fallen so far behind the rest of its economic peers?...

full article: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/1...ex_np.html

long discussion at Slashdot: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05...ml?tid=230&tid=187&tid=219