A very interesting little poll. Nice find!

“I can understand people worrying about the economy but I don’t understand where EETimes readers would not make the connection between broadband access and the economy.”

This was the first thing that popped into my head as I was reading your entry, and it also baffles me to no end how supposedly tech savvy readers – people ‘in the know’ – can’t make this connection… that broadband IS a necessity for todays economies and that the two issues go hand in hand.

Politically, I think the issue is in fact readily recognized at the local and (somewhat less) at the state level, because they see directly the results of the lack of a sound broadband policy and what the lack of interest in one can do to an economy. Thats why you see coal and state efforts to improve access.

Its when you get into the national level politics that broadband becomes a forgotten issue.

Thanks for your comment on my post. And yes… I figured no one could resist The Fonz.

- Chris

A passionate view on the lack on interest in broadband in America. (And who can resist an allusion to Happy Days!)