{"id":188845,"date":"2010-07-19T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/19\/us-broadband-is-now-so-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:56:00","slug":"us-broadband-is-now-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/19\/us-broadband-is-now-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"US Broadband is Now So Bad\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img827.imageshack.us\/img827\/2664\/usabroadband8465958.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>That even in the phony metrics commissioned by the US incumbent carriers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-survey-confirms-that-the-us-shoddy-broadband-2010-7\">United States is no longer in first place<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The United States has lost the top spot in Nokia Siemens Networks&#8217; annual broadband development index, the Connectivity Scorecard, to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The Connectivity Scorecard is, as Stacey Higginbotham reports for GigaOM, a favorite measure of the telecom industry, since it paints the America in a particularly favorable light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotten so bad that even when using the bogus metrics favored our the telco incumbents who took billions in government dollars and gave us nothing, we still cannot win.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to stop bribing the monopolists, and start actually instituting real regulations that require real performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That even in the phony metrics commissioned by the US incumbent carriers, the United States is no longer in first place: The United States has lost the top spot in Nokia Siemens Networks&#8217; annual broadband development index, the Connectivity Scorecard, to Sweden. The Connectivity Scorecard is, as Stacey Higginbotham reports for GigaOM, a favorite measure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,997,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-internet","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}