{"id":13542,"date":"2014-06-20T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13542"},"modified":"2014-06-20T18:03:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T23:03:48","slug":"former-fcc-commissioner-we-should-be-ashamed-of-ourselves-for-state-of-broadband-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13542","title":{"rendered":"Former FCC Commissioner: \u201cWe Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves\u201d For State of Broadband In The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He led off by agreeing with the several executive speakers that true competition is the way of the future, and the best way to serve consumers. \u201cBut we haven\u2019t given competition the chance it needs,\u201d he continued, before referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/10\/28\/u-s-consumers-paying-more-getting-less-for-internet-than-europe-asia\/\">how poorly U.S. broadband compares on the global stage<\/a>. \u201cWe have fallen so far short that we should be ashamed of ourselves. We should be leading, and we\u2019re not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2014\/06\/18\/former-fcc-commissioner-we-should-be-ashamed-of-ourselves-for-state-of-broadband-in-the-u-s\/\">Former FCC Commissioner: \u201cWe Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves\u201d For State of Broadband In The U.S. \u2013 Consumerist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He led off by agreeing with the several executive speakers that true competition is the way of the future, and the best way to serve consumers. \u201cBut we haven\u2019t given competition the chance it needs,\u201d he continued, before referring to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[470,47,940],"class_list":["post-13542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-fcc","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13543,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions\/13543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}