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join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY | Isn't broadband starting to be like roads? I mean, ok, socialist here - and lots of people hate this, but we've had years of telcos battling cablecos sort of fighting wireless/satallite/whatever nonexistant/expensive alternative there is.
At this point, it's basically an issue of no one wanting 50 different wires to their house, or 50 different companies tearing up the roads and such.
So why isn't this a government project like running electricity or telephones were? Why not do it like the roads, and then let the digital equivelent of FedEx, UPS,DHL, and the USPS and whoever else wants duke it out for the head end connection to the net?
Sure, this isn't fair to those who don't have broadband, but then road taxes aren't fair to those who don't drive. School taxes aren't fair to those who don't have schoolchildern. Isn't general infrastructrue basically the reason we have a government? And one of the main things it makes sense for them to do?
I mean, otherwise, we have the crazy inability of customers to get service, or ridiculious connection charges. Then we have the lawsuits against people banding together to get it themselves when the companies don't want to provide it.
Is there a better way? Cause what we have now doesn't seem to be working.
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