What Happened to Bush's Broadband Plan?

[ConfuZed]

Critics decry lack of national broadband vision
Both presidential candidates last election insisted that broadband deployment was a priority, with Bush promising "universal and affordable" broadband for all citizens by 2007. Public CIO wonders what happened to the urg...

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/63878

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Just another lie.

Lying is all they do. All they know.

[firefox]

2. Probably would overheat the economy

It would drive up labor costs in this tight job market and would make us the envy of the world even more than we are now.

I sure would like to hear about Korean speeds and cost and what it has done for their economy and society. I think they have speeds 10 times what we have on DSL for what many here pay for dial-up.

I really think it has to do with restricting the evolution of the Internet as a news video outlet. Also, the broadband companies have a lucrative thing going and are not going to give up the big money rolling in.

[unhappycamper]

3. Never happen. Dial up keeps the masses down

and away from many potential sources of information. Why would our pol$ or corporation$ want an informed public?

[Roland99]

5. They just have to get the tax structure in place and...

figure out how to best make money for corporations.


*Then* they'll work on letting the *citizens* take advantage of it.

[michaelwb]

4. Wait for it

I think it is right after that trip to Mars he was all gung ho about for about 10 minutes during the campaign last year.