I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
I like most any place if I have Internet access.
My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China.
Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
There's not really any safe places on the Internet.
We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.