Tech: Why U.S. Internet Speeds are so slow
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
President Obama wants to fix the U.S.'s Internet problem. In this tech-centric episode of Industry Focus, Sean O'Reilly and Nathan Hamilton jump into why the President took notice of Internet services and how subpar it really is. Where does the U.S. rank in terms of its internet and what does this all mean for investors? Find out now!
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| 0:00.0 | Tired of your Netflix lagging, so is President Obama, but he has an executive order that can |
| 0:04.8 | actually do something about it. |
| 0:06.6 | All that on more on Industry Focus. Howdy Fools, I am Sean O'Reilly with the one and only Nathan Hamilton. |
| 0:19.8 | How are you today, sir? |
| 0:21.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm looking forward to talking a little bit. Yeah we got our |
| 0:23.4 | coffee we got our we got our pending faster internet speeds crossing my fingers. |
| 0:29.7 | Yep we'll talk a little bit hopefully not too much politics we'll talk a little bit. Hopefully not too much politics. We'll talk more |
| 0:34.0 | He's the president of the United States. He wants to stream YouTube videos faster. So do I. |
| 0:39.0 | There's no politics here. You think it's House of Cards? I can only hope. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.0 | If Frank Underwood were President, this would all be done by now. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | Or some people would be dead. |
| 0:50.0 | Or some people would be dead. |
| 0:51.0 | Probably both. Yep. |
| 0:53.0 | So first and foremost, what's going on? |
| 0:54.9 | We had our previous show a month or two ago. |
| 0:57.9 | Obama's kind of basically came in favor of an FCC ruling. |
| 1:01.9 | Basically, he wants net neutrality he doesn't care what has to be done |
| 1:05.6 | to make sure this happens. We've got a few updates so what's going on? |
| 1:10.7 | So somewhat related to net neutrality but President Obama came out recently and said, |
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