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We Can't All Be in Google's Kansas: A Plan for Winning the Bandwidth Race

| October 2, 2012

"Even though America is in a "global bandwidth race" and our "nation's future economic security is tied to frictionless and speedy access to information," according to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's latest speech — we don't have a plan for winning that race.

And our current incumbent providers are not going to help. They're not going to be the ones rolling out the fiber-to-the-home networks that could provide this speedy access to information. Why? They have no incentive to do so. Because they never enter one another's territories, they don't face the competition that might spur such expansion...."

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For Academic Citation: Crawford, Susan P..“We Can't All Be in Google's Kansas: A Plan for Winning the Bandwidth Race.” WIRED, October 2, 2012.

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