This broadband Internet Neutrality thing has really gotten out of hand. In the BBC today they state:
"The government says 100 million Americans do not have broadband."
Let us just do some simple math.
1. The current population of the US is just about 308 million. Yes just over 300 million.
2. The average number of people per HH is 2.4 so that we have about 123 M HH.
3. If 100 M do not have broadband that means 82% of the US does not have broadband or the penetration is only 18%.
4. Now with 18% penetration we are thus ranked with Mauritania. Not that I have anything negative to say about Mauritania, I have been told my French has their accent, by those in Paris.
This makes no sense. The BBC continues:
From the perspective of net neutrality supporters, news of another "set of secret negotiations" is worrying. The FCC said America is ranked 15th in the world for high speed net access
"Industry talks that don't have any public process or consumer interest are not likely to result in good policy making that promotes the public interest," Aparna Sridhar, policy counsel for Free Press told BBC News.
"Developing meaningful open internet rules is a job that is best done at the FCC with full public input from a diverse variety of stakeholders and not limited corporate closed door meetings."
That was a view backed by another advocacy group, Media Access Project.
"These 'negotiations' are illegitimate," said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, the project's senior vice president.
How can something be illegitimate if there is no law. There is not even an antitrust issue, there is no price fixing!Now one more nit. They, whoever they have become, want this "free" Internet to apply to wireless. Perhaps they have never heard of Claude Shannon and the capacity theorem. I bet they have not. You can just get some much data through a foxed amount of spectrum. What do these characters want, for God to change the laws of physics?
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