 tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
join:2008-01-16
Chandler, AZ | reply to pnh102
Re: Obama wants more rural broadband thru USF fees pretty easy to say that when people already have what they want...
when you have corporations only interested in the bottom line and not seeing the right roi on their deployment, you have essentially shafted a group of people. you say that people should "build their own", but what dictates that this group of people knows how to deploy large scale wisp or cellular networks? above and beyond that - logistics and cost of entry is enormous and prohibitive almost everybody except for those that have the outright capital at hand (namely corporations or the government).
amazing that all of the neo-cons on here rant and rave about government involvement with an "i've got mine, i don't care about yours" attitude. nobody wants socialism because we will "pay too much in taxes and not get anything in return", but who is to say that if we go strictly capitalist (with *no* government involvement) that a corporation that is looking strictly at the bottom line will help the consumers any more?
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Who said anything about socialism? There's nothing stopping private citizens from making their own private investments and building their own network privately.
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | I think people are overlooking a major piece of information here. There are "cellular" carriers operating in these areas of WV. Those carriers do have the spectrum needed (obviously) to serve customers in that geographic area. Clearly, they dont want to spend the money to put up a new tower in a very rural area with at most a handful of (possible) subscribers. Instead of whining about wanting the government to do something about this, the rural folks should do something proactive about the issue. My suggestion would be that they find out how many people in the area actually want/need more coverage. Perhaps they could get a petition together, and assuming they get more than 10 people to sign it they can send it to the local "cellular" provider and ask THEM to add another tower.
Why is it that the knee jerk reaction many people on this site have to any business related situation is to whine to the government about it??
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