 marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
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Re: "Because we can't even agree there's a problem" said by Karl Bode:I don't buy this idea that "Metro" = served though. My point wasn't that metro=served.
My point was that metro=not in the middle of nowhere. In other words, that the number of rural whistlestops and isolated farmhouses that need to be served is shrinking and that those isolated farmhouses are growing closer and closer to cities.
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| Oh I know, I was just kind of opining in response to the general commentary of all the thread responses that suggests that if we're talking about populated areas, we're talking about real competition.... |
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kudos:1 | said by Karl Bode:Oh I know, I was just kind of opining in response to the general commentary of all the thread responses that suggests that if we're talking about populated areas, we're talking about real competition.... Oh well, I would definitely agree with that 
Especially the suggestion that satellite always provides competition. There are simply too many small business functions in particularly that satellite cannot adequately handle.
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Especially the suggestion that satellite always provides competition.
The only people suggesting that are those who haven't used it for any extended period of time, or whom are financially or politically motivated to portray the market as more competitive than it actually is. |
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Ahrenl
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My bad, just grabbed the first one I googled...
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said by pnh102:Wow! And this happened without a "national broadband policy" too! For the are they were living in, the access to broadband could've been avaliable much sooner. Hell, old age is a way to die, but I wouldn't call Castro dying in a retirement home much of a successful assasination plot either.
I still have relatives and friends in locations that aren't the boonies, yet still have nothing but possibly a satellite offering. And no, I still won't consider satellite an honest broadband solution. 2-4x the cost for half the service of a traditional broadband provider isn't exactly "broadband covered".
We could certainly wait until 2050, 2100, etc. to roll on out until 256k coverage is avaliable everywhere in the US...but by then the slow "industry motivated" wiring movement would be waaay behind and nigh-useless for folks needs either. Perhaps having government wire the nation much like telephones isn't *the* solution, but the "we'll get to it whenever" moving force of broadband providers today isn't exactly utopia either. |
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