Susan Crawford blog :: Moving Slowly in the Fast Lane

Ver persuasive argument to take a hard look at why USA is lagging behing almost every country in high speed internet and communications.
No surprise that the culprits are the big telecom monoplies AT&T etc..

Many Americans don’t have a choice of highspeed providers, and, as Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, Free Press, Media Access Project, and U.S. Public Interest Group recently told the FCC, “Americans pay 10 to 20 times as much [as people do in other countries] for far less service.” The duopoly is something like Shamu and Godzilla on hire for televised wrestling – giant beasts gently swatting at one another for the cameras. They aren’t competing, these giants. There is a clear failure in the market for highspeed internet access in this country...

Susan Crawford blog :: Moving Slowly in the Fast Lane