U.S. now 16th place in broadband

March 29, 2006 by Mary Wynne-Wynter 

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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 29, 2006

I was leaving for a trip the other day and scooped up
some reading material off my desk for the plane ride. I found myself
holding three documents: one was the Bush administration’s National
Security Strategy for 2006; another was a new study by the Economic
Strategy Institute entitled ‘America’s Technology Future at Risk,’
about how America is falling behind the world in broadband. And the
third was ‘Teaching at Risk,’ a new report by the Teaching Commission,
headed by the former I.B.M. chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., aboutFacts and Folly – New York Times the urgent need to upgrade the quality and pay of America’s K-12 teachers.

Meanwhile, the report by the Economic Strategy Institute, a
nonpartisan think tank, is equally harrowing. It notes that while the
U.S. led the world in broadband Internet access in 2000, it has now
fallen to 16th place. In 2000, 40 percent of the world’s telecom
equipment was produced in America. That share is now 21 percent and
falling.

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