One of the more depressing things about going to Iceland (or Norway, or Australia, or Korea, or Latvia, or Romania, or well, unbelievably
a bunch of countries out there) is that they have
ridiculously good internet access at ridiculously low costs (
$46 for 100/100 in Sweden). Towards this, I'm really holding out for what
sonic.net is trying to do in SF.
So for those watching U.S. broadband policy, between Google’s plans to deploy fiber to the home in both Kansas Cities, a few municipal networks, Verizon’s FiOS network and Sonic.net’s plans, we’re getting more people to a gigabit. It can be done, so let’s see what we can learn as these companies push ahead. And when others say it can’t be done, perhaps we’ll have the information that proves them wrong.
Given that Verizon has basically
shelved FiOS, its pretty much up to Google, Sonic.net, and a couple of random municipal initiatives like
UTOPIA, to keep any hopes of high speed net-access alive...
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