LJ Index

1. Millions of households promised fiber broadband by 2006: 86
2. Promised symmetrical fiber performance in Mbps by 2006: 45
3. Average monthly dollar price promised for home fiber service by 2006: 50
4. Dollar prices for 100Mbps service found in Japan and Korea today: 40
5. Worldwide position of U.S. in broadband deployment in 1996: 1
6. Worldwide position of U.S. in broadband deploymsn
7. Estimated billions of dollars lost to customers of failed U.S. fiber deployments: 200
8. Estimated trillions of dollars lost to the U.S. economy by failed fiber deployments: 5
9. Minimum bandwidth in Mbps required for 1080p HDTV: 30
10. Days required to download a standard 7.8Gb DVD movie file over 56Kbps dial-up: 13

1-20, Wayne Caswell; 1-8, Bruce Kushnick, TeleTruth.org;

make no design out of fear. 45 mins

we need a regional nove3l about the planet earth.