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VentureBeat: Ultraband: The U.S. could match South Korea’s 1Gbps network — for $300 billion

  • nathan mac · 3 months ago
    300 billion sounds like a bargain considering what we got for the the 1 trillion dollar bank bailout. Bring on fiber to everything.
  • Las_Cruces · 3 months ago
    Pretty sure that $300 billion would leave most of rural America still at dialup speeds while the metro areas had 100Mbs.
  • Name · 3 months ago
    its unfortunate that our country the most powerful in the world cant do that, that's sad to me.
  • Neal · 3 months ago
    the US is definitely not the most powerful. we fail. we fail hard at lots of things. take Politics for example. we set the standard for fail.
  • jamescarlini · 3 months ago
    I have been speaking and writing that we adopt 1Gbps as a baseline standard for several years. Planning and implementing large networks is not a 6-12 month process. Anything in the planning process now should have 1 Gbps as a baseline at a minimum. They should have had it in the planning process 3-4 years ago.

    Nice to see the other "experts" coming around to sharing that idea.