| High-speed Broadband over Satellite for the USA The Japanese are serious consumers. The Empire of Japan does provide subsidy for its communications system.
But this is the good old USA where special interests determine communications policy. The game is rigged; it is not competitive. When our Manchurian Candidate headed the Senate communications committee, he paid off his honest and supportive lobbyists with legislation and policies designed to foster their employers.
Why is high-speed broadband widely available in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan? Because pro-consumer public policy responds to citizen demands. Anybody in the USA think that the communications moguls are going to be competitive, innovative, or even attuned to consumer interests? All they need and want is to maintain their monopolistic, non-competitive, favorable positions. They contribute to the politicians and the politicians protect their selfish interests and profitable positions. That is how a mature, devolving system works in post-  modern America. |
