Yesterday I wrote about the dearth of bandwidth in rural areas in the U.S. This morning’s NYT has a short piece on progress in Tasmania, where a push is underway to provide, at government expense, bandwidth at 100 Mbps to all 500,000 citizens. My friend Larry Smarr is quoted:
The Australian government, according to Mr. Smarr, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, sees the “importance of broadband as part of a nation-building exercise, unlike this country.”
Go Tasmania!
Stance and Balance 