{"id":1548,"date":"2005-07-12T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2005-07-12T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T00:01:28","slug":"falling_behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Falling Behind in Broadband: Orwell&#8217;s FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/mooreslore\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/orwells_fcc_chair.php\">Dana Blankenhorn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Americans pay more for less broadband service than citizens of any other industrial country, and our take-up rate for fast Internet service is approaching Third World levels.<br \/>\nThe reason? Lack of competition. Phone and cable networks, created under government control, have been made the private monopolies of corporate interests whose lobbyists dominate all capitals against the public interest.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Isenberg has <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/doc-paints-pessimistic-perspective.html\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana Blankenhorn: Americans pay more for less broadband service than citizens of any other industrial country, and our take-up rate for fast Internet service is approaching Third World levels. The reason? Lack of competition. Phone and cable networks, created under government control, have been made the private monopolies of corporate interests whose lobbyists dominate all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}