Comments on: Broadband – Not

By: Chris Borer

Chris Borer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:58:33 +0000

A great example of this crisis is Purdue own internet! For being such a technology driven school our network is just terrible. IT@P needs to seriously improve our system.

By: Sung Jae

Sung Jae — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:29:38 +0000

This is not surprising news and why would the internet company be willing to spend extra money on other people’s comfortableness? To make the company’s life in danger? Also, because its located at U.S. it is different issue. The company predicts the internet will probably still work at 1mb/s and although there is complains it is unlikely result to revolution. It is true many internet companies earned billions of dollars at U.S. but i don’t think that is good enough to suddenly be willing to afford free high speed internet. Otherwise, they would have to fire their workers. Having fast internet is possible at Korea and Japan because the land is condensed and there is less opportunity cost when it gets to setting up high speed connection. But as Obama mentioned, i think it is good idea for these internet companies to provide little faster internet service to educational facilities.

By: Marisa Strupp

Marisa Strupp — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:11:04 +0000

This company looks like there not going to get that far. The ghastly amount that people have to pay for the premium might as well sink there hope of growing quick and fast. The idea is good, but is there really a good market?

By: Leah Keough

Leah Keough — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:21:03 +0000

I feel that our fast paced society will not let this happen! This may also open up an opportunity for some entrepreneurs who have new ideas to solve these problems. I’m not sure how it is around the world. Of course money is the fuel behind this, that’s no surprise, but this is kind of shocking. I don’t believe they’ll get too far with that one.

By: Steve Shih

Steve Shih — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:14:23 +0000

They mentioned that the USA is a big country including Hawaii and Alaska. And now they want to add internet speed to rural and underserved areas. There will definitely be some money issues. However, how much it costs shouldn’t be the issue but instead will it be successful and reliable in the future?

By: Michael Mullen

Michael Mullen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:55:17 +0000

That’s just not right. Everyone who pays for it should get the same quality. There should be no differences.

By: Chris Cookley

Chris Cookley — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:57:21 +0000

At some point the entire country should have access to true broadband. The internet infrastructure situation is just like the rest of the infrastructure that runs this country. It’s old. It’s tired. It needs to be replaced. Why not create thousands if not millions of jobs to rebuild and repair all of this like they did during the great depression? That move helped that economy, maybe this would help ours too.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:13:14 +0000

This kind of open selfishness really makes me mad the same companies who have gotten us in a mess keep milking the system and nothing is done about it.

By: Nathan Ferguson

Nathan Ferguson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:17:53 +0000

Bogus, companies need to stop being so selfish.

By: Kevin Buczek

Kevin Buczek — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:10:54 +0000

That is just ridiculous that they would try to pull something like that. Something like that will never happen but I give the greedy companies credit for trying because after all they are trying to make easy money.