The world is embracing the Internet and a faster connection to the web, but the United States seems to not care about faster broadband speed and how spread broadband has in America as much as the rest of the world. Congress has decided that they need to know why so they can come up with a solution to advance the country forward in broadband. Congress demands FCC to do something about the broadband diffusion by February.
FCC is astonishing to find out that 33 percent of Americans who are equipping with broadband capability choose not to have broadband. Broadband is not that expensive anymore, and yet people are not willing to pay for it. You can say that older people may prefer not to use broadband since it’s a lot more complicate than turning on a TV. Then again that is a groundless statement since there is little study has ever looked deeper into this question.
The question is why some of the authorities and experts and average people like us want the whole country to be broadband-connected? What’s the urgency? The obvious answer I could think up — broadband promotes faster communication which also means faster transaction for everything which also means there is money to be made and to go around. I guess you can call this as something as broadband economy. Who would have thought that search engine like Google could dominate advertising industry in a way that off-line advertising industry had to be panicked. Broadband made and still is making Google billions of dollar. Broadband is sure can seed new type of businesses and innovations and new technology and stronger economy as we all be more broadband-connected. Source.
Vinh Nguyen
