moresuo
join:2001-08-26
Stewartsville, NJ Reviews:
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| reply to Spazmoto
Re: USA IS F'ed up 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. |
