Somehow, conventional wisdom came to be that (1) American broadband lags the world and (2) the government needs to prop it up.

FORBES: Crashing the Broadband Party

The "killer applications" of speedy networks (which theoretically can transmit data at 40 times the rate of conventional cellular systems) have been widely touted to be portable videophones, plus access to Internet-based broadband content: games, music and shopping.

CNN: Stuck On the Runway

Mediaset, which currently relies on a conventional broadcast model, could strike a deal with the nationalised unit to start selling television via the latter's broadband network.

ECONOMIST: Italy��s biggest telecoms firm faces an uncertain future