How Do We Fix Crappy U.S. Broadband?
"We're not short on ideas. We're short on people's understanding of the importance of a comprehensive, seamless, high–capacity digital network. A lot of articles in the media discuss the stimlulus' "shovel–ready" projects. But we need a network that is digital–worker ready. If we had that, we could re–shore some of the jobs that are leaving the country. We are moving to a service–based economy, away from a manufacturing economy. The projects in the stimulus that will have the longest impact won't be the bridges and roads."