Boosting Hawaii

By Brad

The state of Hawaii, currently ranks a lowly 49th when it comes to broadband speed. Now state government leaders are trying to change that:

As set out this week in proposed legislation before Hawaii’s Senate and House, the plan calls for the establishment of a Hawaiian Communications Commission that would be a combination regulatory agency and consumer-industry advocate. The plan would be to create broadband access at speeds comparable to Japan’s and Korea’s blistering speeds. Japanese broadband users can get speeds up to 1,000 Mbps, while Hawaiian users are lucky if they can get 10 Mbps from their broadband access.

Ironically, the University of Hawaii created Aloha Net in 1970, which proved to be a foundation for Ethernet technology.