"Broadband" seems an oxymoron, as with terms like "telephony." Old world monopolies bandie these terms about to reduce expectation and increase demand, to instill a sense of acceptance of the status quo. Below are quotations of note, but the problems down below have nothing on Alaska when it comes to engineered scarcity. Good business function, exchange server email, and customer relations management systems online arguably require at least 1Gbps of connectivity. The DSL that passes for broadband forces long waits between operations and exchanges of data. The business contacts for our small coffee business required 11 hours to upload to the new server! The US Missal Defence System in Kodiak obligingly dropped off fiber optic connections to its billion dollar network underwater from Kodiak -- for local business development education and public service. With a slight of hand and some contentious underhanded dealings, the cable ended up in the GCI office in Home...
Retired physician and air taxi operator, science writer and part time assistant professor, these editorials cover a wide range of topics. Mostly non political, mostly true, I write more from a lifetime of experience and from research, more science than convention. Subjects cover medicine, Alaska aviation, economics, technology and an occasional book review. Globalization or Democracy documents the historical roots of Oligarchy, the road to colonialism and tyranny