 dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Free Enterprise Our problem is free enterprise, companies won't market in rural areas, and a good portion of the midwestern United States in particular is rural. The government can't force companies to offer broadband.
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 | | Re: Free Enterprise Then the Feds and the State should get the hell out of the way of muni's wanting to deploy but are continuously blocked by corrupt telcos like CenturyTel and cable giants like Cox who buy off the state and Federal politicians simply 'cause they don't like having to compete. | |
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| Re: Free Enterprise Even is "munis" pop up they are still municipal deployments, not really rural.
Rural to me is all the farm houses that there closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. Rural areas make up a large percentage of places not server by broadband. No broadband is far worse than the 1.5x256 that people here whine about.
I personally would rather have 1.5x256 and have a back yard than have 100megs to my 3rd floor "dwelling". | |
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Tacoma, WA | Re: Free Enterprise quote:
Even is "munis" pop up they are still municipal deployments, not really rural.
Many of the public utility districts here in Washington state are very rural. We're talking sage brush, farming and logging here.
Grant county, Mason county, and Chelan county offer fiber to the home and fiber to the farm. While Clallam county has a pilot fiber program.
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Fiber Optics is the future of high-speed internet access. Stop by the BBR Fiber Optic Forum. | |
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join:2002-10-14
Campbellsville, KY | Re: Free Enterprise No offense but exactly how far is that from Redmond? | |
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| dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH Reviews:
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Free Enterprise said by neftv:
Actually if you look how HDTV here in the USA came into being it was the cooperation of the FCC and multiple companies coming together to use the best of everyone's technology to make some standards and now the HDTV sets can do all the standards.
I can't even get HDTV here yet.
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join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA | Re: Free Enterprise All broadcast over the air TV stations have HDTV on the air too. Now many broadcasters are just simulcasting their analog broadcast on HD and others get network feeds in the primetime hours. | |
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| | | dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH Reviews:
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Free Enterprise said by neftv:
All broadcast over the air TV stations have HDTV on the air too.
Believe it or not, none of the local stations here do yet...I've heard talk though.
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Broadband allows me to run my own internet radio station, »www.thebomb102.tk, something I could've only dreamed of. | |
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join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA Reviews:
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| Re: Free Enterprise By law which Clinton had passed, all broadcasters have to be on the air with HDTV unless the broadcaster got a temporary waiver from the FCC. The Public TV stations where the last to be forced to broadcasting HD last year. By 2006 no more NTSC over the air as we know it. | |
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| | said by dslwanter:
Our problem is free enterprise, companies won't market in rural areas. The government can't force companies to offer broadband.
If not for free enterprise, we wouldn't have the internet as we know it in the first place. After all, it didn't spring up out of China or Cuba, did it?
The government can force companies to offer broadband, but it isn't really a good idea. | |
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Dayton, OH | said by dslwanter:
Our problem is free enterprise
What economic system are the Koreans and Japanese using?
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