Verizon CEO: Studies be damned, US is tops in broadband

“Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg sat down for an on-the-record
conversation yesterday at the Council for Foreign Relations, and he
pulled no punches: the US is number one in the world when it comes
to broadband. We’re so far ahead of everyone else, it’s “not even
close.”

“Given that a central piece of the National Broadband Plan was
concerned with America’s poor showing on broadband metrics, this
was an intriguing claim to make. In essence, Seidenberg hauled out
one of the NBP’s main reasons for existence and just kicked it in
the groin. Perhaps we don’t even need a national plan?”

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