Microsoft tells Obama to spend cash on broadband
THE SOFTWARE giant Vole has told the US government to spend its stimulus money providing broadband fibre networks to critical public institutions.
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer wrote to the Federal Communications Commission saying that since the government had given all the stimulus money to give bankers holidays in hot places, it had become impossible to blanket the nation with the broadband capacity that local governments, institutions, businesses and residents needed.
He thinks that it would be best to connecting schools, libraries and hospitals to generate the quickest, most impactful and most equitable distribution of social benefits.
Microsoft believes the US government "should be to ensure that all schools, libraries and hospitals across the nation are connected to future‐proof broadband facilities, such as fiber‐optic cable. By offering these community anchor institutions connections with speeds that can approach 100 Mbps, plus expansion capacity, the federal government will bring communities nationwide into the larger national and international digital environment.
The benefits of such a strategy will be direct, tangible, rapid and profound," wrote Mundie, here. (pdf) µ
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It will indeed make things faster and more accessible, bringing people together in a digital community. the major difference is that it will be quicker to pirate music and movies. Plus, as certain institutions such as hospitals are connected to high speed stuff, presumably there will be more confidential data flying around, and that's always a good thing lol.
First of all "impactful" is a loathsome coinage. If that came from the memo, it should have been quoted. Otherwise, Mr Farrell takes the blame.
If the US has a shortage of reasonably priced broadband, it's due to insufficient competition. Better we should fix that problem as the French have than shovel cash at the monopolists by way of hospitals and schools. Screw the information superhighway. The infrastructure help I need every day is visible lane dividers on the asphalt highway.
Rather than spend public money on infrastructure that helps profitable Microsoft, Obama should spend money on infrastructure that helps my profitable business.
What happend to the fiber glut that everyone was reporting on back in 2001?
Why don't we subsidize microsoft and open the market for them at our expense.
I mean we are keeping other businesses running that probably should be closing.
The UK has some of the slowest internet in Europe for no good reason. The US's average is several times the UK's max speed.
20KB/S IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.