Steve Rubel was good enough to share with us his experience of using in-flight wifi on his Virgin America flight and how the real-time video chat was usable. Not perfect but passably usable.
His parting shot in the post was how Internet everywhere is finally becoming a reality:
Having the Internet everywhere is finally becoming a reality. We still have a ways to go. It should be like running water or electricity – reliable and fast. But the final cones of disconnectedness are slowly but surely falling.
Well as nice as that might sound I think we are very long way from seeing any kind of broadband that is everywhere like running water or electricity. We are also a long way from it being reliable and fast. It will only be as reliable and fast as the broadband providers want it to be. As long as they control the pipes don’t expect to be everywhere like running water or electricity any time soon.
For the broadband providers those pipes are their personal fiefdoms and they are going to milk them and us for as much as they can, as long as they can, while doing as little as possible to provide us with world class ubiquitous Internet connectivity.
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