wow! thoughtful post, I actually put down the controller long enough to read it!
the problem is that you cite the "owners" as being someone other than us. as I recall, "we the people" doesn't include Verizon or BellSouth.
Muni broadband makes sense. You whiners who complain about tax dollars just don't understand the issue, at all. Bond issues and service fees for the service itself mean Joe Sixpack doesn't have to worry if he doesn't want to use it.
The fact that companies are standing in the way of the local governments from helping out their citizens and employers should be enough to piss anyone off. I can only imagine the whohash flung here if the fire departments couldn't serve your homes because some law passed by the Magic Elf Fire Company in Podunkum, Miss. prevented local fire departments from being created. NOBODY would stand for that. Oh I hear ya-broadband isn't as important as fire departments...but why shouldn't local gov'ts help if they can? Just because SBC said so?
Yup, well put, much better analogy than I would've come up with
I just find it sickening that the telcos and cable co's would rather spend money lobbying against people being able to help themselves rather than spending it helping the people in the first place. They must be deathly afraid of what kind of a future that ethernet switched fiber holds.
I just find it sickening that the telcos and cable co's would rather spend money lobbying against people being able to help themselves rather than spending it helping the people in the first place. They must be deathly afraid of what kind of a future that ethernet switched fiber holds.
