“Broadband” no longer exists. Tech Bloggers Don’t Have a Clue

I’ve read a number of tech bloggers who are crying in their beer because U.S. Citizens don’t seem to want “broadband” as much as it seems. Broadband adoption has kept even pace with previous years, but stalled among America’s poor, according to a report released this week. or some variation is usually the lead paragraph in the story. I can understand laypeople (like me) using the term “broadband” to mean fast access. But people like ConnectKentucky use the term as the equivalent to DSL. To ConnectKentucky, there are two kinds of access: dial-up and broadband. In fact, the FCC recently recognized that if the lawmakers listened to ConnectKentucky and Connected Nation, all seems right in the U.S. internet world. Of course, it’s not. The U.S. is woefully behind other industrialized nations when it comes to moving data. Of course the FCC was using the definitions most favorable to the telecos. It was using the definitions the global t...