If a household has a phone line, they have
access to the Internet.
Statement of the obvious.
I think some people, usually politicians looking for votes and power, purposely blur the debate and lump access to the Internet with 'high speed' access to the Internet.
Politicians blurring a debate, again statement of the obvious. So what?
The US Census defines High Speed Internet access as '...Internet service type other than dial-up alone. This includes DSL, cable modem, fiber-optic, mobile broadband, and satellite Internet services.'
Seems like dial-up wouldn't be seen as high speed by anyone with a brain.
If the government dictates and/or uses taxpayer dollars to provide 'high speed' Internet access to every household, what's next, defining a minimum speed of that access? Price caps for that speed? The kind of information that must be streamed over that 'high speed' connection?
What's next? Lets see high speed to every household first, then worry about what's next. Find me a bunch of people across this nation that want to stick with dial-up in the meantime.
As sure as the sun sets in the west, it was all but certain someone would bring up the 'killing machine around the world'.
Catchy but content free. The same could be said of the entitlement spending. One of the jobs of the federal govt is to protect the US. That's not done with James Taylor singing songs or by funding gigabit Internet connections. Sad that some people rail against a supposed private monopoly (that was broken up) but have no qualms about granting govt that same power. High speed internet access to every home, if built by the federal government will come with strings attached. But that's OK, as long as I have my gigabit Internet connection, eh?
