Tuesday, October 25, 2005
F2C: Right to Broadband
In an article entitled Should you have a right to broadband? author Charles Cooper writes
Thanks to Jim Baller for the initial link!
Think the video iPod will revolutionize the world? Think again. If you don't have a good broadband connection to download content, you're just looking at an overpriced paperweight. Google Earth may be fascinating, but you still need access to the Internet to view its pretty pictures. You get the point. But it's more than just the Internet. The big change on the horizon is the move to enshrine access to a broadband connection as a basic right of citizenship . . . Ultimately, the question boils down to whether you believe that broadband is so important that it should get treated like a public utility, in the much the same way as water or power.And he mentions an interesting experiment I never heard of before:
Can the localities take the lead? In [the U.S.] there's nothing to rival the Associazione Nazionale Piccoli Comuni d'Italia, an Italian association of small towns that has adopted a plan to promote the adoption of Wi-Fi and wireless technology. That's helped even isolated burgs--like the village of Chamois, deep in the Italian Alps--offer wireless access to its residents.Anybody know anything about the Associazione Nazionale Piccoli Comuni d'Italia? I'd like to learn more!
Thanks to Jim Baller for the initial link!
Technorati Tags: Broadband, F2C
Comments:
I am Italian, I live in Italy, I live in a "piccolo comune italiano" and I never heard about it...
I can assure you, YOU do not have to fear ANY competition from Italy, at least regarding broadband and Wi-Fi.
We are so backward, most of the people do not even know what the Internet is...
We do not have broadband connections unless we live in the big cities.
Our Telecom should have lost the Monopoly in 1996 when Italy signed the Geneva Act, but still you have to pay 150 Euro to be able to have a telephone connection and there are a lot of small "comuni" even without a "telephone connection".
But they have a "Cell phone connection" which brings good revenues to the Telecom...
We are the place in Europe with the biggest number of portable phones... and Marco Tronchetti Provera, the highest manager of Telecom, recently said that we will soon have "TV on the portable phone".
This is Progress italian style.
I saw their TV on a cell phone.
It has 3 frames per second ( instead of 25/28)so you can imagine the quality...
But they think the Italians will go crazy to see the football game on the cell phone.
This also is progress italian style.
Patrizia
http://woip.blogspot.com
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I can assure you, YOU do not have to fear ANY competition from Italy, at least regarding broadband and Wi-Fi.
We are so backward, most of the people do not even know what the Internet is...
We do not have broadband connections unless we live in the big cities.
Our Telecom should have lost the Monopoly in 1996 when Italy signed the Geneva Act, but still you have to pay 150 Euro to be able to have a telephone connection and there are a lot of small "comuni" even without a "telephone connection".
But they have a "Cell phone connection" which brings good revenues to the Telecom...
We are the place in Europe with the biggest number of portable phones... and Marco Tronchetti Provera, the highest manager of Telecom, recently said that we will soon have "TV on the portable phone".
This is Progress italian style.
I saw their TV on a cell phone.
It has 3 frames per second ( instead of 25/28)so you can imagine the quality...
But they think the Italians will go crazy to see the football game on the cell phone.
This also is progress italian style.
Patrizia
http://woip.blogspot.com
