🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-02
Reflecting on my telecom career, I explore the evolution of broadband and the ongoing digital divide.
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Long ago in the late 1990s, I was deeply involved in telecommunications. Specifically, this was my early career working with Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
At that time, facilities based broadband providers were just beginning to take hold in the United States. The shift from dialup to ISDN to DSL, Cable, and Fixed Wireless broadband was amazing.
Of course, open competition in the market is a big part of what made business in the United States successful. By 2005, the term “Net Neutrality” came into the lexicon.
Network Neutrality Wouldn't Matter If There Was Real Competition | Techdirt
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