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Posted 2 years ago.
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A great example on what Governement and Industry can combine to do is South Korea, which is able to boast a 95% Broadband penetration rate. Sure it is a smaller country and more densely populated. I have never been there but I would guess they have plenty of rural areas. Living in New Mexico I am accutely aware of the shortage. The state is very sparsely populated. We are the 5th largest state by land area but we have a population of just under 2 million. There are HUGE sections of the state that only have dialup. There are HUGE areas of our country that are in this same situation. What needs to be looked at is the combined rural market. Look at New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, parts of the Midwest (you get idea) as one bid market and there is some great business out there. A creative, disruptive technology, some Govt seed money to get things rolling (a la Govt funding of Green Energy initiatives) and some venture capital with a long term vision could get us to the 95% range. In fact, to really get renewable energy going Broadband will be essential. This state could generate a HUGE amount of solar enegery. The solar panels are not going to be put in downtown Albuquerque. They are going to be put in the rural parts of the state. People will have to work at these places, business will have to sprout up to support them. I won't happen if all they can rely on is dialup!
Kudos on starting this non-profit. When Telecom was creative we moved from 9.6 private lines to the Internet in about 10 years. Yes there was a bubble with the Internet but look at the amazing and creative things that have evolved since then and continue to roll out. The bubble didnt kill the Internet, it just instilled some reality. There is no reaon why we could have the same type of explosion over 10 years. I am sure this group will play a roll.
Regards,
Bruce Wells
Abba Technologies
Albuquerque, NM
MCI 1983-2006
Telcom companies throughout the world are now competing in the video business. Large US companies such as Verizon and ATT are beginning to compete with Comcast, Time Warner and Cox, but they are barely making a dent. The technology exists today to deliver broadcast quality TV through the telcom networks and truly offer competition to the cable industry. WHY it it that this business has not prospered? Investment dollars are thin, and the cost of entering this business is high. I would love to be part of working with this new organization, Stimulate Telcom.US and determining how we can stimulate competition in the world of TV through telcom.
Government and venture $$ going into today's carriers will not bring back our industry. And the $$ going to other initiatives are too small and scattered to bring it back - IMO.
I do not believe that there exists a disruptive telecommunications carrier today, to the likes of what MCI was in its day. At the point of the bubble burst, telecom was beginning to give birth to technology that has yet to be exploited by any given carrier. Sure, there are pockets of leading edge providers, but none of them are off with the momentum or the "Make some damn mistakes" attitude that once led MCI.
Where is the carrier who is exclusively building their network on Next Gen technology? Name a top 10 carrier who is not nursing along a base of legacy components (Class Switches, STPs, segregate Voice and data networks, segregate US and International networks, etc). If you find a carrier who is void of these elements and architectures, they are not doing it in a big way. If such a carrier were to emerge, they would arbitrage the Top 10 the same way MCI shook up the industry in its day.
Maybe when that happens, our industry will bounce back.
M Eastep (MCI 1984 - 1998) BB