[1st-mile-nm] Internet Access and the New Divide - NYTimes.com

[Christopher Mitchell]

But without Verizon expanding FiOS, how long will it take to pass 25
million homes?  I think this is the concern Crawford legitimately raises.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:

> I admire her but her facts are  way off. Even at the height of the FiOS
> build a quarter of all homes passed with fiber were passed by tier3 ILECs
> and munis. In the past year, more than two-thirds were. there are now 22
> million homes passed by fiber -- 20% of all households.
>
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> On Dec 18, 2011 9:02 PM, "Richard Lowenberg" <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:
>
>>  The article David is posting to this list was in the Times
>>  two weeks ago, and immediately generated a lot of attention
>>  and discourse.     If you haven't yet read it, take a look.
>>  Susan Crawford is very smart and perceptive.
>>  RL
>>
>>
>>  From: David Breecker <david at santafeinnovate.org>
>>  Date: December 18, 2011 2:40:18 PM MST
>>  To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
>>  Subject: Internet Access and the New Divide - NYTimes.com
>>
>>
>>  Apologies if this Dec. 4 piece has already been posted; some very good
>>  observations, IMHO:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/internet-access-and-the-new-divide.html?pagewanted=all
>>
>>  Increasingly, we are a country in which only the urban and suburban
>>  well-off have truly high-speed Internet access, while the rest — the
>>  poor and the working class — either cannot afford access or use
>>  restricted wireless access as their only connection to the Internet. As
>>  our jobs, entertainment, politics and even health care move online,
>>  millions are at risk of being left behind.
>>
>>
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