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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
2 edits | Re: think. said by hayabusa3303  :If you dont like where you live because of you cant get HSI MOVE and quit bitching. That might be your attitude, but it is not the official policy of the United States. In the 1996 Telecomm Act, Congress decreed that it is the official policy of the United States to deploy affordable broadband to everyone, no matter where they may live. Also, the person who won the 2004 Presidential Election said that it would be his goal to deploy affordable broadband everywhere by 2008.
Of course talk is cheap, as is U.S. law (anyone remember how the Can Spam Act was gonna eliminate junk email?). The Powers That Be are ideologically wed to laissez faire philosophies, and believe they will solve all problems, no matter what their track record. I call it the "Starbucks Model" for broadband deployment; i.e., we have a laissez faire, hands off policy as to where Starbucks get built. As a result, some places have multiple locations where they can buy overpriced yuppie coffee. Some places have none, and that is not likely to ever change. Similarly, the "Starbucks model" will mean that many places never see broadband. This is contradictory to official U.S. policy.
I guess rural areas (and all of us) can just count their blessing that this laissez faire attitude was not in place when electricity and telephone were being deployed. Rural areas would have neither; farming operations would be far less efficient, and food would be more more expensive and scarce. | |
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wilbilt
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join:2004-01-11
Oroville, CA
| Re: think. said by PDXPLT : Also, the person who won the 2004 Presidential Election said that it would be his goal to deploy affordable broadband everywhere by 2008. 2007. He said 2007.....
“This country needs a national goal for…the spread of broadband technology. We ought to have…universal, affordable access for broadband technology by the year 2007, and then we ought to make sure as soon as possible thereafter, consumers have got plenty of choices when it comes to broadband carrier.”
--- President George W. Bush, March 26, 2004
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