{"id":3186,"date":"2008-02-04T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2008-02-04T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T00:01:11","slug":"fixing_us_broad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"Fixing US broadband: $100 billion for fiber to every home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080131-fixing-us-broadband-100-billion-for-fiber-to-every-home.html\">Nate Anderson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The US is in desperate need of 100Mbps &#8220;big broadband.&#8221; That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new report from EDUCAUSE (PDF), a group that represents IT managers at over 2,200 colleges and universities. But these 100Mbps connections are coming slowly; in the meantime, countries like Japan already have them. To avoid falling further behind, the report calls for a national broadband policy to be passed this year, one that includes $100 billion for a fiber-to-the-home infrastructure that will connect every household and business in the country.<br \/>\nThe report opens by citing the familiar, dreary facts: US broadband might now be widely available, but it&#8217;s slow and relatively expensive. Between 1999 and 2006, the US fell from third place to 20th in the International Telecommunications Union&#8217;s broadband usage measurements. When it comes to average connection speeds, the US isn&#8217;t beaten just by Japan but also by France, Korea, Sweden, New Zealand, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Australia, Norway, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, and Germany. And it&#8217;s not about population size or density, either; Finland, Sweden, and Canada beat us on most broadband metrics despite having lower population density. Finally, we&#8217;re getting beat on price, coming in 18th worldwide when it comes to cost per megabyte. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080131-fixing-us-broadband-100-billion-for-fiber-to-every-home.html\">Nate Anderson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The US is in desperate need of 100Mbps &#8220;big broadband.&#8221; That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new report from EDUCAUSE (PDF), a group that represents IT managers at over 2,200 colleges and universities. But these 100Mbps connections are coming slowly; in the meantime, countries like Japan already have them. To avoid falling further behind, the report calls for a national broadband policy to be passed this year, one that includes $100 billion for a fiber-to-the-home infrastructure that will connect every household and business in the country.<br \/>\nThe report opens by citing the familiar, dreary facts: US broadband might now be widely available, but it&#8217;s slow and relatively expensive. Between 1999 and 2006, the US fell from third place to 20th in the International Telecommunications Union&#8217;s broadband usage measurements. When it comes to average connection speeds, the US isn&#8217;t beaten just by Japan but also by France, Korea, Sweden, New Zealand, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Australia, Norway, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, and Germany. And it&#8217;s not about population size or density, either; Finland, Sweden, and Canada beat us on most broadband metrics despite having lower population density. Finally, we&#8217;re getting beat on price, coming in 18th worldwide when it comes to cost per megabyte. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}