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You are herePutting the Tech Elites' Whining in Perspective -- Swanson's new U.S. Bandwidth Boom Report
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2009-06-24 14:06
Kudos to Bret Swanson's excellent new research: "Bandwidth Boom: Measuring U.S. Communications Capacity from 2000-2008."
This research also helps refute the constant whining and pessimism by the tech elites' that the U.S. is in the "digital dark ages," is falling behind the world in broadband, and in need of massive U.S. Government intervention in the Internet infrastructure market in order to make any progress. In summary, Bret Swanson's Entropy Economics report found:
"Over the eight-year period: • Total residential bandwidth grew 54x. • Total wireless bandwidth grew 542x. • Total consumer bandwidth grew 91x. • Residential bandwidth per capita grew 50x. • Wireless bandwidth per capita grew 499x. • Total consumer bandwidth per capita grew 84x, for a compound annual growth rate of 74%." Impressive by any measure. » |