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Broadband: Why Government Investment Is Justified Now

This is pure silliness. My broadband internet is a third of the cost of my cell phone bill. Sure, its not a direct fiber optics line, but very few people have a need for that. Unless you're downloading high definition movies or pirating music, most people don't need more than $15 DSL. The marginal benefit of cutting postal time in half is vastly different than cutting milliseconds off an email.

The primary reason that we're lagging in the connectivity rankings has more to do with demand than access. I still know a number of people that simply don't want an internet connection in their house for a variety of reasons.

The real payoff would come from investing in education instead of mindlessly laying thousands of miles of fiber.