DISQUS

Do you think we did that because we want OUR (or any) government to regulate it, instead?

But that's exactly what you asked for, and that's exactly what you're likely to get.

It's easy to say you have innocent intentions in asking government to get involved. It's quite another to look at cases where such involvement was requested that actually stopped there.

Government is never going to be happy just having it's toe in the door and it won't stop pushing. Then, to quote Tommy Boy:

He sneaks into your house once,
that's all it takes. Next thing you know there's money missing off the dresser and your daughter is knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times.

Thanks for the recognition of our series.

Our agenda is solely to use an accurate yardstick when measuring broadband deployment. Currently the OECD study uses metrics that we don't believe truly reflect the real state of US broadband.

The biggest trouble is the subscribers per 100 inhabitants number. If every single household and ever single business in every country measured, had a connection, the metric should show a tie for first.

Unfortunately, under those conditions, the OECD study would actually drop us 8 places from 12th to 20th. That's hardly an unbiased metric.

We're currently working with OECD on ways to improve their study. New measures will likely still show the US has work to do. However, we'll at least be confident that our nation's broadband efforts are not being discounted due to faulty metrics.

Thanks for the link love. We're big fans of Tech Liberation and look forward to joining the discussion and debate over telecom policy.