Microsoft's Mundie: US Broadband Efforts 'A Total Policy Failure'

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: October 9, 2008 9:38:03 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Microsoft's Mundie: US Broadband Efforts 'A  
Total Policy Failure'

MICROSOFT'S MUNDIE: US BROADBAND EFFORTS 'A TOTAL POLICY FAILURE'

Craig Mundie is Microsoft's new chief strategic thinker, replacing  
Bill Gates in that role. He spoke recently about a number of  
Washington and technology issues: the failure of the U.S. to keep up  
in the worldwide race to extend broadband Internet service to its  
citizens, how the Federal Communications Commission should handle the  
"white spaces" in the radio spectrum, and what he thinks of "the  
cloud," an automaton receptionist being planned at Microsoft's  
headquarters and other matters on the frontiers of computing. Some of  
his strongest words were reserved for the country's lagging position  
in rolling out broadband Internet service. My view is the country has  
had virtually a total policy failure for more than the last decade  
relative to this," he said, and the situation is "getting worse faster  
than most people perceive." Like Google's top officials, Mundie is  
lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to allow the use of  
white spaces -- the portion of the radio wave spectrum in between the  
television stations -- for use of other devices.

<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/10/microsofts_mundie_us_broadband.html 
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