What communities risk by putting off broadband investments

Fred Pilot excerpts two key points from a speech by Milo Medin, the head of the Google fiber initiative.

• Communities are still putting off taking control of their economic future...despite more than a decade of waiting for the private sector or the Federal government to do something.
• Many communities have a blind faith in wireless...that if they wait long enough, a "breakthrough" wireless technology will save them the effort of investing in duct and fiber. Medin makes the point I have made many times, which is you can't expand wireless without lots of fiber.

Read Pilot's summary, and he also links to Medin's full speech.