It's America's big roadblock, behind which rotting computer inventory, busted business models and shattered investor dreams are piling up. I think DSL and cable are impossible and must be eliminated. The local phone monopolies have no incentive to roll out DSL aggressively. Appealing to the local phone monopoly management's higher principles won't work, either. If it took FCC Chairman Reed Hundt three years to get one measly DSL line into his house in Virginia, we lesser mortals have no chance.
Cable is dead.
The carriers labor under mountains of debt and can't afford to upgrade their systems. That leaves wireless. More on this exciting development, so-called WiFi wireless, in the next column. All rights reserved.