 jaaPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
kudos:2
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Vonage
| What exactly is the problem? I have a single broadband option (cable). It is cheap, fast, and reliable.
The ILEC (AT&T) is not interested in providing broadband or TV service to me. All they offer is POTS and marginal DSL (about 600kbps).
Will regulation bring broadband to those who don't have it? Perhaps, but at what price to the rest of us? If the telcos and cable companies cannot make a return on their investment, where do you think the rest of the required money comes from?
I don't have the option to get water from a utility. I have a well - my only option. And there is not enough water to water my grass. I don't consider that a basic necessity of life. If I wanted water service, I could move to a house that does.
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bi0tech
join:2003-06-19
Cockeysville, MD Reviews:
·Comcast
 ·Verizon FiOS
| It has little to do with you getting all the water you want and alot to do with making it possible for more than 1 entity to choose to deliver you water in the way they see fit. That way may be better/worse/different than now but you would still have a choice.
What if you were 1 street too far for cable, would you still feel the same? How about being limited to dialup or satellite because the 2 providers in your area didn't feel that county was profitable?
Unless you were locked in a cave somewhere for the last decade or so. (hmm a cave with cable internet, what a concept) The internet has grown far beyond just some fanciful recreation. Hell it's probably the defining creation of the last generation. The next, largest, and working its way toward most diverse media outlet in existence. To restrict access for the sole purpose of benefit a few corporate entities is rather silly.
I cannot fathom this pervading idea that somehow we need to protect the profits of corporations to the detriment of the populous at large. You ask where the rest of the money comes from, I ask you where did the money to build the current infrastructure come from. Largely our pockets, accompanied with false promises and scare tactics to let them have their way. |
