Comments on: FCC Chief Sees Clouds Darkening Broadband Skies

By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:45:51 +0000

Of course, Mr. Genachowski seems utterly unwilling to consider the notion that his attempts at regulation of the Internet might have put a damper on innovation and investment. Even though they have.

By: SiliconANGLE — Blog — U.S. Falling Behind World in Broadband Adoption, FCC Fears

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:04:45 +0000

[...] covered the speech, as well as rehashed the potential implications of these concerns, Genachowski said the U.S. is [...]

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:13:12 +0000

The story conveys the impression that our study, “The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness,” is some sort of broadband ranking. That’s incorrect.

The report surveys 16 factors that determine a nation’s ability to foster innovation, such as higher education, regulatory structure, tax policy, and investment in R&D. Broadband is one of the factors. We study the current standing of 40 countries, as well as the rate of change. The US ranks in the bottom half in all of the change factors we surveyed with the exception of venture capital and those related to private R&D investment. Our lowest change score is in progress toward E-Government. I would encourage analysts to at least read the executive summary before commenting on our findings.

Richard Bennett
Sr. Research Fellow, ITIF

By: Commenter

Commenter — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:59:18 +0000

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but the US has lost its competitiveness. It’s not a possible event in the future. It has already happened.

By: eideard

eideard — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:59:10 +0000

Blaming the profiteers at the top of the food chain is perfectly reasonable and justified.

Follow that on with the drones in Congress who perform the least at their responsibility to the electorate. We’ve just added a group that may include a few who are technically fit – but, don’t forget, their ideology will probably require broadband to be wood-fired.

Rubbing two sticks together isn’t conducive to modernizing infrastructure.

By: gabe morrow

gabe morrow — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:23:58 +0000

personaly i liked the google version proposel mostly there wasnt enough proctections on non wirless but the proposel fits wirless perfectly for most part