I heard a fleeting snippet of news on the radio that a “broadband bill” had been defeated in the Senate. I never heard another word or could I find any headlines on the Internet. Between battling with my own dropped connections, I managed to find links to the Bill.

Targets for every household to have minimum speeds of 5mbps in 2009. Sounds like any good developed nation to me …

Perhaps I’ll whine about my own tribulations with caving into one-way satellite in another post. It hasn’t been going well, but I’m maintaining my optimism that I might actually get it to work consistently. It is only out of desperation that I haven’t shipped the whole kit back to Germany already.