Dan Gillmor has a terrific column today on what it’ll take to get broadband going in this country. And he even has some words of encouragement for the FCC.

What would we lose by calling the telecom giants’ bluff? Maybe a couple of years of rapid broadband deployment, though what they’re deploying now — DSL and cable modem connections — runs at such a slow speed that it can only be called broadband if you stretch the definition. In South Korea and other places where deployment is going strong, speeds are much faster and prices much lower…

Another wild card has appeared, and it’s the most exciting of all, because we might be able to give the monopolists what they’re demanding and still have genuine competition.

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