[va4me]

Currently, the United States ranks 13th in the world in broadband deployment, down from 11th in just one year. How is it that the country that invented the Internet is falling so rapidly behind? I believe the answer is not lack of American ingenuity, but heavy-handed, outdated government policy.

All the countries ahead of us have massive government subsidies (and in some cases have nationalized) telecom services.

We as a country need to decide whether or not we want everyone to have broadband, or we want broadband services to only be delivered where profitable.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

Separate the ILECs from the network. They are the clot, the problem. Not a lack of subsidies. What ever benefitted from subsidies? Computer memory? Remember THOSE subsidies? Fat lot of good that did.