Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Not as long as T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T have something to say about it...

Free WiFi? That's So 22nd Century

The U.S. currently ranks 15th in the world in Broadband penetration. We're #15! We're #15!

Now part of that probably has to do with the vast size of the U.S., but Canada is also pretty big (albeit concentrated near the U.S. border), and they are ahead of us. What happened to this American "exceptionalism" that Sarah Palin recently loves so much? We don't seem to be the leader in much anymore outside of putting the world economy into turmoil.

This is another example of an area where a great benefit to the common person will be sacrificed in order to benefit big business and corporate America. If everyone has access to free Broadband, companies like T-Mobile and Verizon think they'll disappear or have to change their business model. Boo hoo. The world changes, and they have to learn to deal with it. Corporate America is getting to the point where they are becoming an inhibitor to the progress of America and its citizens and they need to be reigned in. Their greed should not take precedence over the progress of this country.

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