[1st-mile-nm] Jim Baller's Broadband Presentation in Utah

[Richard Lowenberg]

Forwarded from MuniWireless: (This is a follow-up to the recent past
posting about the UTOPIA and iProvo fiber projects in Utah.)

Posted by Carol Ellison at 6:27 PM on October 1, 2007
www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/6465/1/3/

Why the U.S. is losing the broadband race

Jim Baller of the Baller-Herbst Law Group, which represents municipalities
on broadband and telecom issues, has posted the presentation he made to
the Utah Legislature's Government and Privatization Committee last week.

It presents a compelling case for the role of government in providing
broadband access. Jim compared the imperative to the need for rural
electrification many years ago and illustrated how, if current trends
continue, the United States will enter a technological backwater behind
nations like China and Japan. Americans already pay 20 times as much to
receive one-thirtieth the broadband speed as citizens in Japan.

Jim's presentation:  www.baller.com/pdfs/Baller_Utah_9-26-07.pdf


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