"Hundreds of Billions" Invested In Broadband And Yet We Still Lag Behind

[Commentary] Have we wisely invested in broadband infrastructure? We're a long way from universal broadband access in the US. Hundreds of billions of our dollars have gone to creating a broadband marketplace where competition is inherently limited (because of the high cost of deploying new networks) and very few people have access to world-class broadband. Daily wonders if it would have been smarter to concentrate on encouraging competition between services over a common infrastructure vs. between last-mile technologies.