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Crisis of broadband

how about a link?

Seems they're holding a conference to, among other things, decide how to allocate signals that various services use. We have all of these wi-fi toys you know, and in order to be able to handle an ever-growing demand they have to allocate signals in the radio spectrum that were previously used by non-wifi services. At least, that's the quicky "Cliff Notes" version of the thing.

check their project " Brillo " .

I'd be more concerned about all the energy thus invisibly being pumped all around us.

I'd be more concerned about why no study has yet passed muster, hypothesizing such…
But that's just me. (Please keep a close look-out for Maxwell's Demons…if I can't breathe. Gotta blame someone!)

Susan Crawford believes telecommunications in America are going through the biggest crisis ever, and this is just as bad as the banking crisis was. Monday, at the Freedom 2 Connect conference, the Internet law scholar and former Special Assistant for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the White House, laid out what's wrong with broadband in America, hinting and what needs to be done to fix it. It's not going to be easy.

"The stakes are extraordinarily high, this has been an incremental crisis for a long time but now it's an actual crisis," said Crawford, whose book analyzing these issues, Captive Audience, will be published in November. The central issue is the so-called digital divide and what Crawford refers to as the "looming cable monopoly." Due to deregulation, which was predicated on the premise that the free market and competition would protect consumers, cable companies have found themselves with an inordinate amount of power to control the Internet and broadband access while, at the same time, traditional phone companies like AT&T are struggling to keep up and veering towards wireless services.

To support her thesis, Crawford presented some stunning numbers. In the last two years, Comcast market share has grown from 16.3 million subscribers to 18.5, a 14 percent growth. Time Warner Cable has grown 10 percent, from 9.2 to 10.7 million customers. Meanwhile, DSL subscribers have plummeted: AT&T and Verizon market share is down 22 and 21 percent respectively.
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So, while it's good to be Comcast, it's not good to be an American citizen. Without competition, there's no drive to improve the service. The average speed of an Internet connection in the United States is around 5Mbit/s. An astoundingly low number if you look at other western countries. South Korea, for example, has an average of 50Mbit/s. And faster connections are starting to be implemented around the world. One gigabit connections are available in countries like Japan, Portugal or Sweden and at much better prices than in the U.S. – in Hong Kong, connecting at one gigabit per second costs $26 a month while in Chattanooga, TN, it costs $350.

Susan P. Crawford (born 1963) is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She has served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist for Bloomberg View. She is a former Board Member of ICANN, the founder of OneWebDay, and a legal scholar. Her research focuses on telecommunications and information law.

I was under the impression there were definitely indications that the safe legal dosage of electromagnetic fields should probably be a little bit lower than it currently is.

For Oakdale, electromagnetic radiation in all dosages is absolutely safe unless there are studies to the contrary, except that all studies are false if there is at least one fringe scientist with an agenda that Oakdale likes better.

She believes that, eventually, in every district, there will be elected officials who understand and care about these issues. That will be when we'll be able to look for a solution. "We make this a voting issue, that's how we fight back."

As usual, ersi thinks my opinions are comparable to his:...

Your opinions are incomparable, absolutely unique.

Don't tell me who agrees with you. Tell me why you think you're right!

check their project " Brillo " .

Anyway, I see some possible minor potential for e.g. starting the furnace in winter when you leave work for home, although any '90s programmable thermostat will do the trick almost as well, but for anything truly interesting you'd need a kitchen robot.[1] After all, you can hardly tell your kitchen to automatically start cooking your beans when really they should be rinsed after soaking first anyway.

[1] I think a couple of arms on a gliding rail in the ceiling of your kitchen would probably be cheaper and easier. I think I read somewhere you can actually get something like that for a quarter of a million or so, but I can't find it at the moment.

By the same reasoning, vaccines cause autism…^* And Orgone cures almost everything! 

Sorry. Bad science used as "scare tactics" leaves me cold. (Excuse me: Electrosensitivity…? Really?!) If you can't defeat Maxwell's Demons, don't bother me with bogus statistics…

* Frenzie, people have been trying to "prove" a connection for more than 25 years, and have not succeeded… Is Folklore your fall-back and replacement for science? Or are your motives other than what you'd state? 

Roughly, 1800 new studies have been published in the last five years reporting effects at exposure levels ten to hundreds or thousands of times lower than allowed under safety limits in most countries of the world.

imagine , when the  lamps  , door , oven , car , heater , Air conditioner , etc .
 have an operating system + wifi / bluetooth .
i assume a very low end hardware that support that operating system  is arroud $2-$5 --- >> Not millions dollars . 

so , when that kind of social lifestyle  is happening .
that  will doubled , or tripled  the Radio wave usage , than  from nowadays  .

which commonly wireless are just available for  cellphone , lappies , computers , etc     .

If you only followed your own advice...

Roughly, 1800 new studies have been published in the last five years reporting effects at exposure levels ten to hundreds or thousands of times lower than allowed under safety limits in most countries of the world.

[…] I hardly think folklore should be unilaterally rejected. Just because something isn't scientific, or even because an explanation makes no sense, doesn't mean it doesn't refer to something real.

That electromagnetic fields have an effect on our own bioelectric systems is simple fact.

No, sir. I'm sorry but scientific claims require scientific evidence and scientific justification.

science is all about finding out how things work, not just that they occur. That's just the first step. But that doesn't mean they don't occur until you figure out how they work! Calling the earlier steps in the scientific process unscientific is a bit odd, is it not?