mshewitt
join:2007-05-19
Sarasota, FL
| What makes you think there is a choice
Somewhere lost in the noise of profit and regulation is the small fact that we grant telecommunication companies use of our “Public” easements and airwaves to conditionally use our highly successful capitalistic model to deliver critical infrastructure to our nation.
Just because a farm house or rural community doesn’t have the density to meet the same economic return as a more dense city doesn’t mean that economically they don’t need infrastructure to succeed. Part of the cost of becoming a “Common Carrier” is also to carry the burden of spreading the costs across an entire service area.
We have lost track of these critical requirements over the years – it’s time to put us back on track |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
1 edit | said by mshewitt  :.... We have lost track of these critical requirements over the years - it's time to put us back on track track has not been lost of these critical requirements; they have been willfully and purposely ignored. I agree we definitely need to get back on track.
what a lot of people don't seem to grasp is that our nation, at the current time, is for the corporation, by the corporation and of the corporation. The public (consumers) get short shrift and will lose out every time a decision has to be made between the rights of consumers and the desires of corporations. With very few exceptions, congress and the courts continue to side with corporations over the public.
until that is fixed, this nation will continue to go to hell in a hand basket - there is a very real reason why over 80% of those polled say this country in going in the wrong direction, and this is one of the reasons. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
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what a lot of people don't seem to grasp is that our nation, at the current time, is for the corporation, by the corporation and of the corporation.
Oh I think plenty of people grasp that, they're either apathetic and thereby disinterested in the political process, or so focused on their own financial welfare that they've convinced themselves that everything in the pursuit of wealth (even if it tramples other basic human rights) is a-ok. This either has to be addressed, or the latter bunch of humans will lead this civilization into nose-dive decline (which clearly has started IMHO). |
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mshewitt
join:2007-05-19
Sarasota, FL
|  I appreciate the responses and acknowledge that we are a nation of corporate interests what I have a difficult time with is that this willful trend toward short term profits has only one natural conclusion as is currently obvious in nations with far less choice than ours – the outcome is a decline in our economic viability.
Today countries like Japan have national goals of reaching Gig service throughout the country while we are often lucky to have 200 Kbps
See the thread from Digital Cities »w2i.com/resource_center/the_w2i_···_/id_187 |
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