PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to RadioDoc
Re: US wouldn't have the most said by RadioDoc:said by PDXPLT: We have near 100% electricity availability, but there's no gov't subsidy to make it happen. I guess the REA is just a figment of FDR's imagination. Providing loans and other tax incentives to electric co-ops doesn't constitute the "socialist gov't handout" widely complained about here.
By the way, to get electric service to a place more than a couple hundred feet from an existing power line, you pay through the ass. Most people are not willing to pay the construction cost to extend fiber to their house in order to get 100 megabit/second Internet.
But at least you have the choice with elctricity. And many would pay that for broadband. From what Verizon employees have told me, the only thing stopping me from having DSL service is Verizon's willingness to install a DSL line card in the (otherwise DSL-capable) Remote Terminal at the end of the block. If I had the option, I'd pay for the line card myself. |
RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | "but there's no gov't subsidy to make it happen"
Who said anything about socialist government handouts? You said there was no government subsidy, and I pointed out how utterly incorrect your statement is.
There is more to DSL in a remote terminal than one line card. Anyone else you know served from that RT?
You could easily order a dedicated circuit and pay for it yourself. That's what happens when you have to pay to run electric service two miles down a country lane to get to your new Country Palace. You have no choice of how much you will pay or who will provide the service. In fact, it is less of a choice than you have for high speed Internet.
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