Wednesday, April 02, 2008
FTC Should Stop Verizon from Calling DSL "Broadband," Walt Mossberg
The FTC should stop Verizon from calling DSL "broadband," which Walt Mossberg calls "crap" and is not broadband by world standards.
Moreover, Walt says that higher connection rates provide by cable companies, 6-8 mps, often deliver at less than half of the advertised speed and are over priced.
At comments yesterday at the Beet.TV executive summit in Washington, the Wall Street Journal columnist said that that the United States is woefully behind the rest of the world in broadband connectivity and the next president needs to take action to fix it.
In a more positive word about Verizon, Walt told me is is quite pleased with his home FIOS connection.
Some positive news tonight about Comcast, the nation's biggest cable company, rolling out super fast residential broadband in St. Paul, Brad Stone of The New York Times reports.
This is the second part of Walt's remarks from yesterday's summit at the Embassy of Finland. Here's the first piece. See the nice post roll footage I shot of the cherry blossoms by the Washington Monument this morning.
Walt and Blip.tv's Dina Kaplan
Here's a photo of Walt with summit participant Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv. Dina is featured in the new issue of Fortune in a piece by David Kirkpatrick. Disclosure: Blip.tv manages our video encoding and sponsorship sales.
-- Andy Plesser
Update: April 5. Looks like Walt's comments about the imminent availability of the iPhone on a 3G network has created excitement among Apple watchers. Update April 7: Tom Krazit at CNET weighs in!
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I'm supporting this idea all the way! I can not imagine who would disagree with it. On the whole - make posts like this more often.
DSL is not broadband
Sounds like a smart fellow
Smart guy. DSL is not broadband. Infact, they are ALL charging broadband prices and lying to customers about speeds.
Sounds like a smart fellow. I'm from sweden to as the other guy above said, we have exelent broadband here. (100Mb/100Mb) yepp, and browsing this web works perfectly.
You guys in the US need to bump your speed, hope it happens.
Cheers!
Australia is a mixed bag at Broadband. In some ways we resemble the US, and in no way do we resemble the Japan style FTTN networks (yet). But the infrastructure is starting to be there. What sucks is that sometimes to get the 30 Mbps connections you have to pay quite a bit for it (AUD$90/bundled per month for 25GB, Bigpond Cable). But at least unlike Theo wrote, we do seem to have decent peering links to EU and the US. I have actually achieved 3MegaBytes/sec (24Mbps) transfer on a regional transfer and about 1MegaBytes (8Mbps) using international servers.
Lastly Australia gets, as no doubt does the rest of the world, a time lag factor of everything latest and greatest. No iPhone yet, no iTMS TV/Movie store, no local Amazon style service (some come close), up to 1 year delay on airing TV series (though it is improving recently); and so on.
The tyranny of distance and small population on a great land mass is at play.
It's ironic that I sit here in Sweden, where we have excellent broadband, and can't watch the video because it downloads at less than 20 K/s...
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I agree that Verizon DSL does suck. I have been a client of them since 2006, I had no choice since Cable connections constantly drop around my house. This should not be calle broadband as it does not stand for its name!