Comments on: America fails – miserably – to capture Internet equality medal http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/america-fails-miserably-to-capture-internet-equality-medal/ A SearchCIO-Midmarket.com blog Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:16:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rolandwartenberg http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/america-fails-miserably-to-capture-internet-equality-medal/#comment-24 Rolandwartenberg Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:59:24 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cio/america-fails-miserably-to-capture-internet-equality-medal/#comment-24 Hi,

i couldn’t more agree.

I am a german citizen. When we moved to US for the first time in 2000 (actually, to Santa Clara in the middle of Silicon Valley) i was fascinated by the speed of the internet connection. Those times we got DSL from our local phone provider, with 1.5 mbps, much higher as what we had at home in Germany. In 2002 we moved back there, and moved again to US in 2006, this time to Cupertino; we actually live a copule of blocks away from Apple’s headquarters. And guess which speed we could get from our local phone provider again? 1.5 mbps. Today, in 2008, it’s getting better, now having 16 mbps via cable, but compared to what you can get in Europe that is still not the same. And remember: we’re not living in the middle of nowhere, this is Silicon Valley what we are talking about. One has to admit that the guys from AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc. work a lot on the extension of the network regarding speed etc. but it really looks like US is some years behind compared to Europe or Japan. What can we do tohether to change that?

Regards,

Roland

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