> But that seems unrealistic. I don’t think we can have our cake and eat it too. I don’t think the carriers will work together, and I don’t think we can let 25 different carriers have 25 different spectrums — that’s ultimately bad for business *and* the end user. I know this is a more complicated idea that requires bigger brains than mine to be tackled, but I also know (or at least strongly feel) that it’s something that needs to happen if we’re going to move forward from a technological standpoint. We need something better, something smarter. But is there any way we can remove politics and greed from this debate and actually do what’s best for human beings for once? I don’t see that on the horizon just yet.
via [joshuatopolsky.com](http://joshuatopolsky.com/post/4064633675/at-t-t-mobile-and-monopolies)
I couldn’t agree with this article more. The current political climate in the US is going to cripple our ability to move forward technologically. We’re in serious danger of losing our ability to innovate, mostly because of low-level infrastructure that the government isn’t stepping in to build, and companies are unwilling to fund.
A company like Apple can’t continue to make the iPad and iPhone better if our connection to the Internet remains at the same speed and limited to the same places. As I’ve told many friends many times, until I can stream a full HD movie with no stuttering wirelessly while sitting in the middle of a corn field in Iowa, the true promise of the “cloud” won’t happen. Apple can’t fix that. AT&T can’t fix that.
There are simply too many situations where people don’t have access.
Some things are too big for any company to do. The government really does need to step in on the big necessities. And the Internet is surely one of those necessities at this point.
