High prices and undeniably bad service in some parts of America is a dominant feature there. The high cost of entry plus the lobbying effect by the large ISP players like Comcast, Time Warner, and Embarq has prevented small players from entering into the market leading to monopolization. Further, lobbying many states to ban the municipal Wi-Fi has aggravated the problem.
The promise of Mr. Barack Obama to make available the affordable Wi-Fi services after he was elected the president of America has gone with the wind. ‘His plans were too ambitious to be achieved’, courtesy Federal Communications Commission.
Federal broadband offers to cover at least 100 million US households wherein the proposal includes the time required for deployment of the plan would take another ten years but facilitating Americans with robust internet speed of 100mbps down and 50 mbps up.
Giving a boost to small business ventures, ‘a nationwide wireless interoperable broadband public safety network’ would be provided for just 1gbps connections.
Smart meter service like ‘Google power meter’ could also be used with the help of broadband enabling the user to track and manage real time energy consumption.
Without adding any tax burden on the tax payers, the FCC plans to deliver this national service which will be funded via sale of 500MHz lying vacant.
Being recognized as over ambitious and outreaching, the plan is strongly opposed by Americans who have now started posting their ugly comments on internet, the first case being that of Engadget.
It is greatly feared that American scratching their heads with the problem remaining unsolved, it will soon become a national health care problem.
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