Broadband, DSL, and the Race for Internet Connectivity
Abstract This paper discusses current technologies and trends relating to Internet connectivity. Broadband cable, DSL, and fixed wireless are examined. Issues addressed relating to these technologies are the potential for providers to favor specific content on broadband cable and the 'digital divide' or the trend of inaccessibility of the internet in poor and rural areas.
In recent years, the Internet has radically changed both our economic and social institutions. The driving force behind the Internet has been increasingly cheap, fast, and reliable connections between distant machines. As Internet connectivity increases, internetworking can be used in more places for more purposes. Until recently, businesses and consumers depended on modems to connect to the Internet, but now several new technologies are being used to continue the trend of greater connectivity. These include digital subscriber lines (DSL), cable modems, and fixed wireless networks.
This paper briefly examines each of these new technologies. More important than the details of how they work, however, is the effect they will have on the Internet and society. This paper discusses two of the biggest issues: corporate control of Internet content and equal access to the Internet by all races and classes. The creators of the Internet designed a system where all people everywhere could access the inter-network and where information sharing could not be suppressed. However, the cost of implementing these technologies has resulted in greater access for affluent communities, putting poor and rural communities at an economic disadvantage; this inequ...
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As capitalism runs its course and develops new technologies, society is left to pick up the pieces and figure out where these new technologies will lead them. Ever since I learned to use the Internet as a child, I have become accustomed to seeing more and more fascinating technology developments that have changed the way I communicated as the years went by. Now that the Internet has infiltrated more aspects of human life, it has become necessary to reflect on how this critical juncture will continue to affect our society. In Digital Disconnect, Robert McChesney provides an analysis of the arguments that the celebrants and skeptics used to express their views of the Internet. McChesney then moves past these arguments to explain how the PEC plays a key role in determining the direction that the Internet is heading towards. By assessing McChesney’s views, I hope to develop my own interpretation of the Internet’s impact on society.
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