In five years, all Americans should have access to broadband Internet. US President Obama has presented plans to provide the entire United States with modern mobile networks. For Obama, the seamless supply of broadband Internet is a decisive step for America's economic future.
It is no coincidence that the USA is relying entirely on wireless coverage for this ambitious project: The mobile share of Internet usage is increasing rapidly, and broadband cabling for all American households, especially in remote areas, is neither feasible nor financially viable within a reasonable period of time.
The investment battle over the successor of today's GSM and 3G networks and WLAN infrastructures has also begun in Europe. It is assumed that wireless and wired Internet supply will continue for some time exist side by side become. However, state regulatory bodies and the telecommunications industry are already relying more and more on mobile networks.
In Switzerland, in four to five years, LTE and WiMAX go into operation as a successor to today's 3G networks and the popular WLAN. gartmann.biz has already reported on this.
For some time now, Obama has been conjuring up the risk, which is quite understandable from abroad, that the USA is threatening to lose its leading position in the global economy.
Comprehensive information networks, including for end users, undoubtedly represent important assets in the struggle for economic supremacy. The American plans, for which Obama now wants to free up 18 billion dollars from state coffers, are therefore not a day too early. Because even in other growth markets, such as emerging markets Brazil, India and Indonesia, the future of the Internet is undoubtedly wireless, and the growth in distribution is breathtaking. Europe and Switzerland would therefore do well not to oversleep the development.
Even though investments in this country come from the private sector instead of from the state treasury.
Obama to Unveil Wireless Internet Plan
Washingtonpost.com