By Patrick Appel
So says Tim Wu:
Americans today spend almost as much on bandwidth -- the capacity to move information -- as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/a-bandwidth-cartel/213527/
