Leading to the gigabit promised land? ift.tt/1kBl2hq Editors note: This is a guest post by Blaire Levin, whose bio is below. CNET invited him to write about the debate behind broadband infrastructure in the United States. Last summer, Israel announced a plan to deploy a world-leading, gigabit broadband network nationwide. Cisco CEO John Chambers, in announcing his companys investment in the project, predicted Israel will lead the world in the process of country transformation that digital technology can deliver. Huh? The United States invented the lions share of that technology. Why isnt Chambers talking about the United States? That the CEO of one of our top tech companies thinks our country wont provide this kind of leadership suggests a troubling gap in how we perceive the path ahead in global technological leadership. What happened? Our upgrade agenda got downgraded. Chambers noted that world-class countries and companies dont lose focus, and unfortunately, we have. Our broadband pundits endlessly debate where we are instead of where we need to be, quarreling over interpretations of todays international broadband rankings or, in the case of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, urgently holding a hearing on a program that the chairman of the FCC already shut down. These discussions are about headlines, not about progress. By d... [Read more]
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