New Report Concludes: To Be Competitive, Cities Must Own High Speed Information Networks
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/new-report-concludes-be-competitive-cities-must-own-high-speed-information-networks/The United States, creator of the Internet, increasingly lags in high-speed access to it. In the absence of a national broadband strategy, hundreds of communities have invested in broadband infrastructure to solve their problem locally. A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) explores this essential infrastructure and the options now available to communities.
The ILSR Report contends that DSL and cable networks fail to offer the speeds and capacity necessary for the digital future.