Reading articles like this is rather disheartening. Telecom companies (In North America) are focusing their efforts on rapidly expanding services and capabilities of mobile devices.
Can you really blame them?
No, but I can say this: stop ignoring the development of the existing infrastructure. Broadband access and speeds in particular have been rather stagnant for as long as I remember, the point being hammered home by this picture – depicting the speed of broadband all over the world, sorted by country:
(From: Digg.com)
Why is it that countries which have the best cell phones manage to have the best services for those cell phones and the best broadband internet speeds as well? Why is Japan and South Korea planning to roll out 4G networks that promise true mobile broadband, and we can’t even get 3G right?
Step up your game, North American telecoms, for you are being left behind.