swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Broadband goal nearly reached?
If "US broadband goal [has been] nearly reached", someone must have set the standard too low!
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In 2004, President Bush pledged that all Americans should have affordable access to high-speed Internet service by 2007.
I'd like to propose a better goal: bandwidth as big, cost as low and availability as ubiquitous as in any other country. Japan and Scandinavia, for example, have many megabits both up and down for less than U.S. Americans pay, and more competition. |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I can still name several areas around here that can get marginal or no broadband, let alone "affordable" broadband. Satellite broadband shouldn't count either. There's a big difference between standard Cable, DSL, FIOS, U-Verse and Satellite, that's for sure. We're fortunate to have been finally blessed with a good cable company that has begun upgrading our cable system, but that's still no excuse and it definitely didn't happen "by 2007".
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Sounds like our government has hired the Iraqi Information Minister, remember him? |
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swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
·RoadRunner Cable
| "We're winning!" |
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fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA
| reply to dslwanter
Exactly. Where my parents live in south-central Virginia, the only thing available is 24kbps dialup. There is no cable, DSL isn't available, and because of the phone system used, even dialup is physically limited to a maximum 24kbps connection. Try web browsing at that speed sometime! |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to Sammer
Something like that. The NTIA used the same bogus "if one person in a zip code has broadband available, then everyone in the zip code has it" criterion to come to the conclusion that everyone has broadband. |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | said by PDXPLT  :Something like that. The NTIA used the same bogus "if one person in a zip code has broadband available, then everyone in the zip code has it" criterion to come to the conclusion that everyone has broadband. Yes and that is utter bull shit. My zip code is 44436 which is Lowellville and Coitsville Township. Half of the zip code is Time Warner Cable and the other half currently has a cable system left in ruins and was never upgraded beyond the 1960-Mid 1990's analogue system, Although this is about to change with Armstrong now being our cable company, but still for the last 7.75 years that's how it's been. Right around late 2000 Adelphia upgraded their cable system which is present day Time Warner. It also just so happens that the central office for 330-536 which services most of the 44436 zip code is located in the village of Lowellville, which is right smack dab middle of the Time Warner territory. There's about 7 or 8 of us that barely qualify for very marginal DSL (less than 768kbps and unreliable, since the phone lines are in just as much ruins as the cable system) up where the other cable system starts. But everyone else, forget it. They are blasted with ads on TV telling them how great it is, but they can't get it.
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