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USA IS F'ed up

yup untill broadband is treated as a utilty this wont stop

reply to CPM
Part of the problem is that the USA is a huge land mass. Hard to wire up every inch of it ya know...
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -Carl Sagan

Yes, it is quite easy to simply forget about lower profit regions entirely.

reply to Spazmoto
That is the problem. USA people only do things for money. Not for the quality of life, for the greater good.

"That is the problem. USA people only do things for money. Not for the quality of life, for the greater good."

That's the greedy, spineless, self centered, self absorbed, money grubbing sheeple of the United States for you. Such a "great" society we have, eh?

reply to CPM
We live in a capitalistic society. It's all about making money at all costs. The BS taxes people are paying that supposedly serve these rural areas aren't being put into good use. The US is billions of dollars in debt with no social security for the next generation and not much of it was used to improve the quality of life. There's money out there. Millions of dollars are being used to contruct new memorials in the DC area. The 9/11 memorial is projected to cost a total of over 30 million with 11 million in donations to date.

reply to CPM
Bone-headed replies. Nobody does anything out of the goodness of their heart.

reply to CPM
The quality of life, sucks in the USA.

reply to Spazmoto
Any given State whose foot print is covered by Verizon is not bigger than Japan and certainly isn't bigger than western Europe, both of which enjoy full 30Mbps coverage throughout their countries, border to border.

The utility companies have been getting fat on corporate welfare, support taxes [do you know you pay a tax on your cellphone and hard line usage SPECICIALLY to give the telecommunication utilities underwriting capital to expand their networks into the hinterlands?], and have failed to spend necessary deployment capital to keep us current with the rest of the world.

The country that invented ARPAnet is behind little South Korea in high speed internet technology. SOUTH KOREA!!!

I'm a former FidoNetter [amateur network that began in the '80's and was a breeding/testing ground for a lot of the technology used today. We used the Bells own technology to huge amounts of information across standard POTS lines and beat the Bells tariffing system LEGALLY.

I say we do it like we did it than.

NEIGHBORHOODS SHOULD BAN TOGETHER, BRING IN T1 LINES AT ABOUT $400/MONTH AND DIVIDE THE COST AMOUNT THE PARTICIPATING USERS. GO INTO DIRECT COMPETITION WITH VERIZON USING THEIR FIBER TO DO IT.

Initial outlay would be under $3000 + the $400/month. That is the same as a $125 installation charge and $20/month for 25 users [and if their are more users the costs go down] for a N class wireless network at T1 speeds [1.5Mbps downstream AND up].

Enough people doing that would crisp their cookies but good.