Powerless

http://www.breakingviews.com/less-not-more-better-for-new-england-utilities/1614096.article

FCC residential broadband data set available

"Measuring Broadband America presents the results of the first nationwide performance study of residential wireline broadband service in the United States. The study examined service offerings from 13 of the largest wireline broadband providers using automated, direct measurements of broadband performance delivered to the homes of thousands of volunteers during March 2011."

The raw data can be found at

http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/raw-bulk-data-2011

More information is at http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america 

(This is also informally known as SamKnows data; a paper related to this topic was published at SIGCOMM 2011 by some of the participants.)