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> You don't need fiber to access Wikipedia, submit job applications, etc.

> You don't need fiber to access Wikipedia, submit job applications, etc. You do need a decent, reliable connection to access video-based educational materials (which form the bulk of many MOOCs), and more so to watch livestreamed conferences and tutorials. Do you plan to force mobile phone networks to provide virtually-unlimited bandwidth on top of supporting tethering when they're already struggling with physical bandwidth issues as it stands? The rest of the developed world manages to provide high-speed (>50Mbps) Internet to at least almost the full population of their major cities (ignoring rural areas for now), with plenty of competition, so I don't really see why the US can't.

Posted by vertex-four on Mar 1, 2015, 4:50 PM

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> You don't need fiber to access Wikipedia, submit job applications, etc.

vertex-fourMar 1, 2015, 4:50 PM

> You don't need fiber to access Wikipedia, submit job applications, etc. You do need a decent, reliable connection to access video-based educational materials (which form the bulk of many MOOCs), and more so to watch livestreamed conferences and tutorials. Do you plan to force mobile phone networks to provide virtually-unlimited bandwidth on top of supporting tethering when they're already struggling with physical bandwidth issues as it stands? The rest of the developed world manages to provide high-speed (>50Mbps) Internet to at least almost the full population of their major cities (ignoring rural areas for now), with plenty of competition, so I don't really see why the US can't.

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