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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill <cohill at designnine.com>wrote:

> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to address
> this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about DSL,
> cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about fiber
> networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>
> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>
> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>
> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>
> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
> the highway.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>
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