 japPremium
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038xx | reply to boogie74
Re: Funding Model Boogie,
You are seriously off-base with #2. People have been clamoring for cheap, stable broadband: they care tremendously. AOL has been hemorrhaging customers for the last 3 years. I can't even reconcile your logic between your #1 & #2: on the one hand you shout that there is a "SERIOUS amount of competition in phone and TV services" and in the next breath claim "[people] simply DON'T care! [about broadband]" - which happens to carry a booming voice service (telco replacement) and a small but growing trades/sales in movies & TV shows.
I think you do not comprehend where services are rapidly migrating to: to residential broadband. That is why Comcast & SBC loath the idea of munis: if the muni trend takes off it'll undermine their market share. It's a rapidly shifting piece of ground. And if you think customers don't hate SBC & Comcast (especially comcast) then you need to hang out in those BBR forums more often. Munis have been mostly very successful at providing very fast, fair, and stabile connectivity. |
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Boogie,
You are seriously off-base with #2. People have been clamoring for cheap, stable broadband: they care tremendously. AOL has been hemorrhaging customers for the last 3 years. I can't even reconcile your logic between your #1 & #2: on the one hand you shout that there is a "SERIOUS amount of competition in phone and TV services" and in the next breath claim "[people] simply DON'T care! [about broadband]" - which happens to carry a booming voice service (telco replacement) and a small but growing trades/sales in movies & TV shows.
I think you do not comprehend where services are rapidly migrating to: to residential broadband. That is why Comcast & SBC loath the idea of munis: if the muni trend takes off it'll undermine their market share. It's a rapidly shifting piece of ground. And if you think customers don't hate SBC & Comcast (especially comcast) then you need to hang out in those BBR forums more often. Munis have been mostly very successful at providing very fast, fair, and stabile connectivity.
You really need to look further than BBR for your source of information. If you actually think that BBR is a fair and representative sampling of the entire US population, your problems go further than simple naivity.
Your example of where to go to see how most "customers hate SBC and Comcast" shows how little you see the rest of the non-BBR world. If YOU think that the world doesn't hate all Blacks, Jews, homosexuals and Asians, you should REALLY start hanging out with the KKK and the Neo-Nazi movements more- as THEY are about as representative of the attitudes of the average person as BBR is.
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japPremium
join:2003-08-10
038xx | said by boogie74:
You really need to look further than BBR for your source of information.
OK, maybe next week I'll try that. For a moment .... see how it feels. It'll be scary though 'cause BBR is such a wholesome fount of truth, vitality, and all that's right with the world. But if Boogie in Wisconsin tells me it's what I need to flesh-out my world view, well, I'm all over it.
Now, what was this thread about? Libertarianisms? Funding Strategies 101? Oh!, that's right: municipally owned connectivity infrastructures. Yup, they're great. Ashland-OR Tacoma-WA, the Swedes, Glasgow-KY, Whatcom County(WA) PUD, Bellingham-WA, Mount Vernon-WA, - they all appear happy with their fast, cheap service. Glasgow offers 4000/4000 for 22$/mo. Just terrible, ain't it? These don't get funded & built because "nobody cares". |
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| Since Boogie works for a Bell, perhaps he can turn you on to the "SBC Network news channel" for all your "unbiased" news needs. |
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japPremium
join:2003-08-10
038xx | said by Minister:
perhaps he can turn you on to the "SBC Network news channel" for all your "unbiased" news needs.
HA! Yeah, I'll watch it with the frequency of that other self-defined "fair & balanced" news Op/Ed channel: once a year when trapped alone with a bottle in some cheap roadside motel and I decide it's time to check-in on the conceptually challenged mainstream sectors of North America.
Oh great glass oracle, (genuflect...and again) tell me what to think & feel, dispense your wisdom into my empty & waiting head. |
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