Japan: 10.52 Million FTTH Customers > Population density is good for deployment.

reply to Dogfather

Re: Population density is good for deployment.

No, you interpreted it as a political rant and you've failed to recognize the larger point of my post of why population density is not the deciding factor others perceived it to be. I acknowledge that I went on a short, small tangent with the government. However the main point still stands.

A political rant by any other name is just as lame.

And a deliberate misinterpretation isn't?
I'm not going to sit with you and argue with you. The fact that you can't see the whole point even after my reiteration for my original reply demonstrates your lack of understanding and carelessness to even read the post and my reply throughly as I intended other readers to understand the point.

Oh, I read the post and clearly saw your point, which as to Bush bash.

Do everyone a favor and save the political rants for the Red and Blue rooms.

reply to jersey7
We get your point. You hate Bush and Oh yeah, you want Socialized Broadband.

And you must believe pure-capitalism. That is OK. What isn't OK is what's happening at the moment with the state of broadband in the US.

reply to jersey7
Here's a better argument for ya...

The federal government spends over $250 BILLION a year on the roads, highways, etc. and that's including all the BS pork projects of the politicians. And yet they can't even fix all the roads and bridges that are falling apart or falling down (remember the bridge in Minnesota?) and killing people. And what happened to the levees in New Orleans? Money was supposedly allocated to the tune of $2 Billion worth to fix them 10 or 15 years ago because the Army Corps of Engineers said the levees were not up to par. But in the end, the money was not actually spent on them and we all know what happened to New Orleans.

Now these are all so-called GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES and are more important than providing broadband to the masses which is NOT a government responsibility!!! And still the government FAILS miserably in these and many other projects. So before you go on and on about the money being spent in Iraq - which by the way is also a government responsibility (its called national defense) and is also currently succeeding believe it or not, you think about how they spend or don't spend money now on other REAL issues in the U.S. that should be handled by the government unlike broadband which should be left up to the free market.

So don't tell me money is being wasted in Iraq and should instead be spent on broadband.

Hey anon.....I'll top that with the "darwin gov't responsibility list"....the big dig in boston.

"When Congress originally approved construction of the project, it was to cost $2.5 billion and be completed by 1998. According to the audit, the project's total cost could reach a staggering $13.6 billion - $2.8 billion more than projected just six months ago "

Great...just freakin great!
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Let's pluck 'im and see if he's ripe!"
- Larry (MEN IN BLACK, 1934)

This is what happens when you let corporations feed at the public trough. They will take as much as they can get.

reply to anon666