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garmst
join:2000-09-17
New York, NY
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| No "National Broadband Policy" is needed
Internet Connectivity is taking care of itself at a natural pace simply because the free market fills needs. The is no National Food Policy but everyone has plenty of food to eat, in countless versions and quality and in amounts to promote grand obesity.
I really hear no significant complaints in the general "masses" save a couple. The only large scale whining is in forums such as these. To spend $134 billion and likely much more (Government spending being as "efficient" as it is) for a handful of whiners is worse than the outlandish welfare spending to encourage most people not to work.
We already have significant private investment wiring, rewiring, overhauling, speeding up, ad nauseum out Internet. That it does not happen overnight is shows the lack of reality posesed by the whiners.
Nothing happens overnight, ESPECIALLY when done by the government.
New York City has been waiting 50 years for a subway tunnel to be dug on 2nd Avenue. And this is just a HOLE with concrete decoration. Almost 7 years and Ground Zero is still empty. The list is endless.
Everyday, more VZ techs lay fiber and connect netizens, same for ATT is a somewhat less desirous way, Cell systems upgrade, WiMax rolls toward completion, etc.
Read a few books, travel a little round the world, TALK to your friends and loved ones. One day you'll discover it has arrived.
Or will you EVER be happy and satisfied.......... | |
SilverSurfer
join:2007-08-19
| said by garmst  : The is no National Food Policy but everyone has plenty of food to eat, in countless versions and quality and in amounts to promote grand obesity. Not everyone. Suggest you remove the rosecolored glasses, Pollyanna. | |
lvlorpheus
join:2008-02-17
Eureka Springs, AR
| reply to garmst
I hear what you are saying, and I was wondering if you could help me to better understand a few things. As I am sure you can see I live in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. At least that is what my mail, and area code say, but really I live about 5 miles out of town. I have talked to a few of the AT&T linemen, and they have told me that there is a fiber line at the end of my road, and a RT about a mile from there. Every time I see them at the RT and choose to stop and ask them if they are putting in DSL; they tell me "sorry no thats what everyone asks, but I don't think they will ever put DSL out here." After calling Cox 5 times and asking them how much it would cost ME to have them build their network to my home they said they had no plans to build out here, but if theydid it would be about $300,000 a mile. I also used to work for the cable company that took down Cox's old network, and they did not pay us anything like $300,000 a mile. I am sure I could get a few of my friends and we could ran out ten miles of their network for a generous $150,000 a mile, if they had plans to build out this way.
You probable do not know a lot about the area, but over a million people come to the area a year to vacation, and a lot of them ask if there is a broadband connection at the cabin they will be renting on the lake. The answer is no. Do you think they are just making small talk and really have no interest in a broadband connection while on vacation? The highway department is putting in a few hundred million dollar road to handle all the traffic. I also live about 30 miles from the corporate office of the #1 retail business in the WORLD "Wal-mart" that insists its vendor bring a office here to do business with them, and they do. A lot of those corporate employs live out my way.
So, my question to you is just how much more need does there need to be to have this natural pace manifest itself? When I am told by both local provider that they have no plans to provide service how can these statements be true?
"No "National Broadband Policy" is needed
"Internet Connectivity is taking care of itself at a natural pace simply because the free market fills needs." | |
Cliff Robertson
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| said by lvlorpheus :I hear what you are saying, and I was wondering if you could help me to better understand a few things. As I am sure you can see I live in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. ... So, my question to you is just how much more need does there need to be to have this natural pace manifest itself? When I am told by both local provider that they have no plans to provide service how can these statements be true? "No "National Broadband Policy" is needed "Internet Connectivity is taking care of itself at a natural pace simply because the free market fills needs." WildBlue is available today. From $50/month.
No need for the taxpayers to spend a cool million just to wire your house 5 miles outside of a town 30 miles from nowhere.
That may sound harsh, but we're already being taken by the USF and the Al Gore taxes; heck, it took us 100 years to get rid of the Spanish-American war tax. We don't need another "National Broadband Tax" to subsidize folks in Podunk, when satellite coverage is already in place.
If that doesn't cut if for you, then its time for you to form your own WiFi coop with your neighbors and share a T-1. | |
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