High-Speed BroadBand And The Bad Gangs Of ISP

There have been no more frustrating periods of my corporate life like the ones dished out to me by our internet service providers these past few weeks. Google Documents became blurred and stagnant. The visible connected bars were just as useless as they are. The waiting time and hoping time were just hopeless too. Even praying didn’t work! I just wondered could these bad gangs have conspired to sabotage us even with such shocking impunity!

It just doesn’t seem it. But reality was I have to run to the nearby Cyber Cafes to help myself. Just staying there hoping wouldn’t make the heavens deliver high-speed broadband because it is just obvious we have lost both the ‘broad’ and the ‘band’. Bam!

I ask myself, ‘is it not yet time for government to dole out cash to make high-speed internet service available like US and Britain are doing’? With $7.2 billion allocated in the US federal stimulus plan for expansion of broadband networks into hard-to-reach hinterlands and poor inner city neighbourhoods, we can begin by designing a national broadband strategy, followed with hard-nosed approach to making it work.

For the ISPs, they have not stopped amazing me. Must we grab all the customers even without the capacity to handle such? Even going further to rubbish their brands?! Is growth not possible and even so matching same with increased technical capacity and access expansion funds where need be, the way forward? For these ISPs, this rip off should stop. They can do better by overhauling their networks and periscope this poor delivery dilemma and the psychological pains that come with it.

Broadband networks potential is just mind-blowing, with it we can improve education through distance learning, make health more efficient and even create thousands of jobs.

In all, if we want to stimulate the economy fast; I think expanding broadband access is the way forward. There is no need for us to keep waiting. Since there is already viable access to delivery high-spead internet service like fibre-optic cables, souped-up internet lines and new technologies or even delivering broadband over power lines, we can begin to match our desire with action now.