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Friday, December 21, 2001
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.phtml?id=3030000000003569&issue=11:2001 Beyond Broadband - What is the status of broadband rollout and how will it affect government and society? By Wayne Hanson ...For most people with a dialup Internet connection, 56K is top of the line. However, according to my daughter, many of her friends have DSL or cable broadband. With their computers, songs download faster than they play. Goodbye frustration, hello happy kid playing obscure garage-band tunes. In the grand scheme of things, the speed at which a song downloads from the Internet can seem trivial. But Napster started at universities, pointed out Alcatel's James Fausch, since universities provided high-speed LAN access to the Internet. Broadband was the catalyst, and Napster created an entirely new social, legal and communications phenomenon....
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