[Air-l] Down to the Wire

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

one location for the 'sky is falling' rhetoric is the doctrine of  
universal access that arose out of the telephone era, which is also  
the origin of questions surrounding 'adoption rates', 'universality'  
and such. the goal then was to get everyone in the u.s. access to a  
telephone in their home, of which, as i recall from something i read  
last year the u.s. is amongst the lowest in the developed world for  
universal telephone service, which is explained by two factors,  
geographic barriers and dispersed population, which end up being one  
factor, economic cost.
On May 3, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Paul Chenoweth wrote:

> There is an element of geography that seems to have been removed from
> this equation.  The measurement of broadband coverage in Korea and  
> Japan
>  is being compared on the same basis as the amount of physical
> (geographical) coverage in the US.  Vast areas of open plains,  
> deserts,
> national forests, etc. are included in the broadband measure...to
> countries where the population distribution is more compact and the  
> land
> area is significanly smaller.  The statistics make great headlines and
> wonderful 'sky is falling' rhetoric, but there is far less substance
> than the rankings imply.
>
> IMHO,
> Paul Chenoweth, Web Developer
> Belmont University
> 615-460-6867
>
> "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things  
> that
> you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
> Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
> Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
>

jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
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