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br1an
join:2003-09-21
Syracuse, NY
| Wow, what a revelation!
Imagine that, Verizon isn't initially deploying Fios, which is costing them upwards of $10 billion, to markets which won't make them money. Did the editors of dslreports forget the basic assumtions of a free market economy, which have been in place for 200+ years, which dictate that companies will act in THEIR best interest in terms of profitability, which in turn will lead to the best interests of the consumers? Verizon is the only company in the past 25 years that is trying to push a cutting edge technology in a country that is littered with legacy technology, whereas the countries that you quote (Japan, Korea, etc) only do so with a government mandate. Not to mention these countries have much less area in terms of square footage, and are much more densly populated than the U.S, making broadband deployment much easier for them.
And yet you bitch about competition not leading to lowered prices, well if you are really complaining about prices rising for broadband then you should get out and realize that the U.S dollar as a whole is turning into Monopoly money. EVERYTHING COSTS MORE compared to 5 years ago. Here are some examples for you to look at before you criticize the cable/broadband industry for increasing prices
Change in gas price in the last year"
Egg prices
The dollar and inflation
Broadband Reports, I am very dissapointed in you. Next tme please do some research before you post a headline critizing a major company that is doing its best to promote broadband access in a country that is by nature resistant to change and for the most part behind the rest of the world when it comes to technology and internet access. | |
Supervisor
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join:2006-03-26
Lebanon, PA
| said by br1an  :Broadband Reports, I am very dissapointed in you. Next tme please do some research before you post a headline critizing a major company that is doing its best to promote broadband access in a country that is by nature resistant to change and for the most part behind the rest of the world when it comes to technology and internet access. I believe Karl was taking issue with someone making a statement that broadband choice exists, not about the value of any new broadband service that Verizon or anybody else chooses to deploy. Seems like the point was more about the lack of competition than about whatever Verizon's intent may be. What exactly did Broadband Reports say that was incorrect and should have been researched? | |
wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to br1an
Because you can't have internet access without eggs!!
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