| National Broadband Policy I have to weigh in here. I think you all are off base and ill-informed. The US needs a national broadband strategy because we currently define "broadband" as 200 kbps, a little faster than dial up. Alternatively, Japan and Korea have 100 Mbps speed to over 80% of their homes, and they are paying the same price that we in the US are paying for our "broadband" connection - $40 per month. Japan and Korea, France, Switzerland, etc all have national plans to deploy fiber to every home and business in their country.
Our country will fall behind economically if we do not do the same. A national broadband policy is good for everyone, not just Verizon. |
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 Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
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Miami, FL | Let me add a little bit more weight on to your bull crap.
What you say is true indeed, but try accessing any site out of that country on POP's that are nothing more than literally bottlenecks and with ping times more worse than 56K modem's.
A national broadband policy is crap shit for many reasons.
Every state has his or her own law's and they have the right to decide if you do business within that state. We are not called the "United States" because someone just thought it was cool. It's because what makes us as a nation and to simply say that every state has the same problems as some other state is irrelevant. Business should be done to gain profits but at the same time provide a good or service to the community on a legal term and without force.
Sure it's nice on paper, but when a company set's up a tower in your backyard you better eat your own garbage as nobody is going to listen to what you have to say.
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The only limits we have are the one's we set ourselves. |
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| Excepting that in any area of interstate commerce, the federal government reserves the right to trump anything the states might say.
We always had fun with that at Earthlink - since we stated any internet problems were 'interstate commerce' [seeing as the internet is not centralized in any one state], the Legal Department was usually successful in getting cases removed to federal court from the state courts. |
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Let me subtract a little weight from your bullcrap.
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I have to weigh in here. I think you all are off base and ill-informed. The US needs a national broadband strategy because we currently define "broadband" as 200 kbps, a little faster than dial up.
200/52 ~= 3.85 times faster than dialup. Just keeping FACTS facts.
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Alternatively, Japan and Korea have 100 Mbps speed to over 80% of their homes, and they are paying the same price that we in the US are paying for our "broadband" connection - $40 per month. Japan and Korea, France, Switzerland, etc all have national plans to deploy fiber to every home and business in their country.
Be that as it may. Giving Verizon more money after we established a TAX which every RURAL user pays into... is beyond reason.
Verizon collects from *EVERY* subscriber a federal tax *EVERY* month. Have they used any of that money to deliver rural broadband.
Let me clue you. Verizon is running scared because there are 9000 WISPs out here grabbing as much of rural America as they can *AND THEY AREN'T ASKING FOR A HAND OUT*.
Verizon lost 360,000 POTS subscribers last quarter. Verizon is most likely a sinking ship if they can't stop the hemmoraging.
Now ask me is I care? Verizon deserves what their lame management have earned for them. |
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