"Verizon has a huge mobile Internet operation, plus fiberoptic cables into more and more homes."
"BTW, was quite surprised at the amount of international coverage the announcement got includingAustralia Launches Broadband Network Plan, Australia to build $31 billion fiberoptic broadband network, Australia to build $30 bln broadband network andAustralia to build $31 billion broadband network."
"Meanwhile, spending just $6 billion on wireless systems to extend the Internet amounts to a wise rejection of a bloated $44 billion proposal to lay fiberoptic cable to rural and underprivileged areas, says Mark Cooper, research director of Consumer Federation of America."