 rit56
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New York, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: Will be few, if any, bidders under Mayor's rules TKJUNKMAIL.............Why I expected anything different I don't know.. The mayor is doing his job, trying to lift the social and economic conditions of all his citizens by trying to make a deal with someone or some corporation to give them the city franchise, make it cheap for them to do so in regards to fees imposed by the city but in return they have to wire the whole city including poor areas..... Amazing how you turn this into some anti American socialist thing which it isn't. This is his proposal which will be debated. He won't get all he wants and everyone knows it. You are amazing. I live in a big city. Your opinions on business and outreach would be that if they were building a subway system in New York now you and people like you would have the subway lines only serve Manhattan and "parts" of the outer boroughs where the affluent live. "Why should we run rail lines through the entire city? We should just run subways where we know we can get a decent return" Well guess what? They didn't do this.This is the logic you ALWAYS use when it comes to any city in America wanting to do this. Did it ever occur to you that New York is the richest and most successful business center in the United States and possibly the world? Did it ever occur to you that in may be in large part due to when they "laid rails" in the city the covered the whole city there by making it easy for the entire city to compete and be competitive. Did it ever occur to you that this is a fitting metaphor for why it is a good idea to wire an entire city with broadband and not just affluent areas? Because maybe it will economically life the entire city and make it more competitive on the world market? You need to start looking a t the big picture. Running subways into poor neighborhoods allowed people there to travel to other parts of the city for a better education, better job opportunities. Don't you think doing this with broadband will have the same effect? Broadband access, internet access is the "subway system" of present day life. |
