Broadband Woes Hobble Net Advertising
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday the Internet's role as an important mass medium for advertisers was hobbled by the slow rollout of high-speed broadband service and was still years away.
"If it's there and on all the time," Gates said of Internet access, "you would use it quite extensively." He added it should become a priority for political and corporate leaders to make broadband access products more available to home users. "That's the element that will drive forward," Gates said.