Who cares if people/companies who stand to profit are pushing for fiber? Even if they can get us 20Mbps as a baseline standard that would still leave us behind Japan where you can get a symetrical 100Mbps connections for less than $35/month! Suddenly my cable connection doesn't feel so "comcastic" anymore. Yeah, so big companies will make money off their infrastructure investments. There are lots of reasons for the dismal state of broadband service is the U.S., so I don't wanna hear a blame game... I just want to see improvement.
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What would be interesting is to see a study on how much energy in the form of gasoline and diesel would be saved if a robust national broadband network enabled people to do more telecommuting and less driving to work and back. -- The older I get the more I prefer the company of my dogs over that of man kind.
I understand your logic here but how is that the telcos responsiblity? Any employer can currently pay for a private connection between the office and the employees house with a T1 or other connection but they just dont want to pay for it. Again, its not the telcos job to make it more affordable for your employer to do this. Why does everyone look at the telcos and say...hey, if you do this we can save/make/earn more money but we arent going to help with the costs of making it happen, we just want to take advantage of your deep pockets?
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