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| Competition My Eye I would give credit to the providers if it was due, but it is not. I cannot consider my cable company a viable option for broadband when they have a traffic cap which I would exceed every month, and have terrible service (see jet broadband). I don't have DSL of any kind available, and EV-DO just came online about 3 months ago...but that has a cap too. I don't do any crazy P2P, but I would consider myself more a power user than just a typical email and web user. Verizon has no incentive to bring even DSL to my area, so do you think they are going to bring Fios in the next 10 years?
It's just my opinion, but I think the folks that are saying, "you should be happy with what is there, don't expect the companies to do anything that won't give them a good ROI" are the same folks that have a nice 3mb-15mb pipe coming into their house. Until you have to live with highly limited options, I don't think you can understand how frustrated some of us get with the way broadband is distributed through the "free market".
I don't think the government should own a nation wide network, but I do think that they should mandate prohibiting companies from choosing an area to install broadband in, while leaving other parts out in the cold. If Verizon has chosen to install Fios in their market area, they should be mandated to provide a timeline or a map of when they will have it deployed over their entire customer base...even if that is 10 years out...The fact that my side of town cannot even get DSL which has been out for what 10-15 years...it's plain ridiculous. | |
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Duluth, GA | said by CrazyJoe :
I don't think the government should own a nation wide network, but I do think that they should mandate prohibiting companies from choosing an area to install broadband in, while leaving other parts out in the cold.
Why? What makes the Information Superhighway any different than the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system?
The last mile that connects (or should) every home to the Internet is not something that a private corporation should control.
Let the corporations provide *service*.. as in ISP, but get them out of the physical connection business. It is only holding the U.S. back in terms of broadband penetration.
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| said by ieolus:said by CrazyJoe :
I don't think the government should own a nation wide network, but I do think that they should mandate prohibiting companies from choosing an area to install broadband in, while leaving other parts out in the cold.
Why? What makes the Information Superhighway any different than the Eisenhower Interstate Highway system? The last mile that connects (or should) every home to the Internet is not something that a private corporation should control. Let the corporations provide *service*.. as in ISP, but get them out of the physical connection business. It is only holding the U.S. back in terms of broadband penetration. If the government could actually do it without blundering it or wasting a ton of money I think it would be a great idea...but I just don't trust them to do a good enough job. | |
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