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July 14, 2005

We're #1 in broadband...as long as you've forgotten how to count

David Isenberg — with whom I had dinner tonight — a couple of days ago blew apart FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's assertion that the US "leads the world" in broadband growth, as well as a bunch of other Happy Talk. Says Isenberg, we are #12 in broadband per capita. China's growth rate is substantially greater than ours. Switzerland and the Netherlands have higher per capita acceptance and much faster growth. It would have been nice if the new Chairman had started out with some straight talk...

(PS: David is starting his term as a Berkman Fellow any day now.) [Technorati tags: fcc DavidIsenberg]

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 14, 2005 12:06 AM

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