Fw: Re: IP: Story on broadband reform efforts

[David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>]

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From: Sid Karin <skarin () ucsd edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:04:15 
To: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: Story on broadband reform efforts

Dave,

> > There are a lot of pieces to the broadband puzzle, he said, and the FCC does
> > not have jurisdiction over all of them. For example, even if broadband is
> > available to all Americans, subscriptions automatically would be
> > constrained by
> > the number of households that own a computer.

This is a static analysis of a dynamic situation.  I don't know what 
would happen
if broadband were ubiquitously available, but I don't think that the FCC does
either.  It seems reasonable to  expect that new services and new devices
would become available.  Some might require a computer (keyboard, mouse, screen
and pizza box), but some might might not contain a visible computer;  think
TiVo for example.  I wonder how many people have a Tivo or similar device,
but "don't have a computer"?   And what are the projections for the next year?
Or 5 years?

        Cheers,

                ........Sid




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