 major marcoRes Firma Mitescere NescitPremium
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Stepford, CA | Pathetic and overpriced BB from American corps As long as money is the name of the game and there are one or two behemoth cable and telco corps running the show and buying off politicians to protect monopolies, the U.S. will never see the average speed countries like Japan see. |
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 MicPremium
join:2003-01-27
Minneapolis, MN | Also keep in mind, we don't live 2 feet from one another here in the US. (Yes I'm exaggerating, but that really is the reason why)
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 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
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NYC Metro | reply to major marco
said by major marco:As long as money is the name of the game and there are one or two behemoth cable and telco corps running the show and buying off politicians to protect monopolies, the U.S. will never see the average speed countries like Japan see. Don't be stupid. Japan is very densely populated. It's a small island.. How can you compare a gigantic continent-spanning country like America to an island that is densely populated?
Don't say "never" you know that isn't true. Five years ago most people would say you were nuts if a company was going to bring fiber to people's homes in America and offer 15-30mbps down... Well, they're doing it today. You can't snap your fingers and get everything you want. Most people living in urban areas have a good choice of broadband providers.
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said by major marco:As long as money is the name of the game and there are one or two behemoth cable and telco corps running the show and buying off politicians to protect monopolies, the U.S. will never see the average speed countries like Japan see. Well, they are just following the rules that have been laid down by the Wall Street Sociop^H^H^H^H^H^Hanalysts, which state "Capital investment in infrastructure is a Very Bad Thing and you will have your peepees spanked for indulging in it."
No matter that capitalism without capital investment to spur the economy is not capitalism at all. And no, huge executive packages are not the same thing. |
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join:2003-04-02
Los Angeles, CA
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said by Tzale:said by major marco:As long as money is the name of the game and there are one or two behemoth cable and telco corps running the show and buying off politicians to protect monopolies, the U.S. will never see the average speed countries like Japan see. Don't be stupid. Japan is very densely populated. It's a small island.. How can you compare a gigantic continent-spanning country like America to an island that is densely populated? Don't say "never" you know that isn't true. Five years ago most people would say you were nuts if a company was going to bring fiber to people's homes in America and offer 15-30mbps down... Well, they're doing it today. You can't snap your fingers and get everything you want. Most people living in urban areas have a good choice of broadband providers. -Tzale I will have to disagree partially. maybe many choices for providers, but the pipes are owned by only a couple of major companies. I live in urban los angeles, many different DSl providers but ATT/Pac Hell owns the pipes. And we also have Time Warner for the majority of the city, Verizion FIOS will not be coming to urban LA for a while. Doesn't sound like a good choice to me. If ATT owns the major pipes, and the DSL companies lease the lines from ATT, they obviously are competing with each other.
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