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RayW Premium join:2001-09-01 Layton, UT kudos:1	reply to calvoiper Re: What is wrong with discrimination? said by calvoiper: It is history--and history has shown us that networks develop over time, are concentrated in certain areas first, and not everyone automatically can connect tomorrow. This is, of course, offensive to those who believe that every person in the country should have exactly the same environment, regardless of where they live, how hard they work, or what they might want. RayW, I'll agree that it's appropriate for me to subsidize broadband expansion in the suburbs of Salt Lake City around the same time you agree it's appropriate for you to subsidize the expansion of parking garages in San Francisco. We each made our choice of where to live and work, and we need to live with the consequences of those choices. calvoiper Parking garages? What does that have to do with Broad Band? And we do not need you to subsidize Broad Band out here, just keep your crappy company from suing our local government (and buying laws against) for trying to do what you could/would not. If you can't do the job right, then get out of the business and let companies like Comcast or local governments do it. Your excuses of why you can not do it are just as bogus today as your predecessor's were 40 years ago (and I see that certain companies still made enough money to spend on buying laws despite the loss from wiring "poor" areas). -- I am not lost, I find myself every time.
RayW Premium join:2001-09-01 Layton, UT kudos:1	to forum · permalink · 2007-05-02 18:43:27 ·
calvoiper join:2003-03-31 Belvedere Tiburon, CA	Ray, there's no "you" here--I don't work for or represent in any fashion any telco. Please don't accuse me of not doing some job "right"--by your political standards. I do however, reject the efforts by tin-pot dictatorships called local governments that try to manage competition, extort free broadband for government, require "public access" channels that run puff pieces on local politicians, and otherwise seek to turn business into their own little piggy bank. Doing the job "right" means different things to different people--and in the case of local government, it all to often means kissing up to the cable company that has been distributing Christmas gifts to government honchos for years and sticking it to the telcos that have been regulated at the state level. Requiring "build-out" by telco video competitors is one more ploy to delay video competition--a ploy that you are either part of, or deluded by. calvoiper -- VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies!
calvoiper join:2003-03-31 Belvedere Tiburon, CA	to forum · permalink · 2007-05-02 23:06:04 ·

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