 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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1 edit | You all blew it and you know it. If the Bell System were still providing service the US of A would still have the best network in the world as it had for 100 years.
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 jaaPremium,MVM
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2 edits | said by batterup:If the Bell System were still providing service the US of A would still have the best network in the world as it had for 100 years.
Absolutely!! And we would be paying $200/mo for it. I'm all for competition - 80mbps is available to anyone willing to pay for it.
Choice is what makes our country so great. You can choose to live on the coast and rebuild your house every 30 years when it is destroyed by a hurricane. You can choose to live where is costs $10,000 to get 1mbit internet.
It is all about choices. I am capable of making my own choices - I don't need the government to take my money and make choices for me.
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kcir
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Butner, NC | reply to batterup
Only in their commercial claims. Today we'd all just have rented rotary phones still and threats of being sued if connected anything other than their equipment on their network. |
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said by batterup:If the Bell System were still providing service the US of A would still have the best network in the world as it had for 100 years. If I remember my history correctly ARPA wanted AT&T (Bell System) to help develop the Internet back in the early days. Bell declined on two grounds:
1) They didn't think packet switching would work
2) If it did it would render the public switched network obsolete. They did not not want to help create a competitor.
There are lots of problems with current US communication strategy but say that it is due to Telecom deregulation and the breakup of the bell system is not accurate.
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
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Yeah I remember the Bell days. Had to keep it secret that you had a Modem or else they'd want to charge you "business rates" and make you pay for "line conditioning."
Yeah. If the Bell system was still providing service I think ISDN would still be where it's at....
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Hingham, MA | The old NYNEX was a big ISDN fan, I don't think they really started pushing DSL until they were bought out by Bell Atlantic (or did NYNEX buy out Bell Atlantic and take the name? I forget)
The thing about ISDN is that it's overall a very reliable technology, it can be provisioned at much longer distances than ADSL... if they could have made a high-speed ISDN that retained those advantages, it would probably have supplanted DSL. |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ Reviews:
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So what we have now is better? We have the haves and the have nots. Providers spend money on B.S. advertising instead of the network. Verizon is selling off the rural aries and they will never get broad-band with out a government pork project and the US of A that doesn't have FiOS falls behind.
It is obvious that private industry can not/will not bring high speed to the great unwashed. |
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