Re: Obama wants more rural broadband thru USF fees
Who said anything about socialism? There's nothing stopping private citizens from making their own private investments and building their own network privately. -- "At the moment of conception."
yeah, except the pesky spectrum that you cant get your hands on due to the incumbents owning it all, and the lobbying so that joe-average-guy can't compete with them.
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?? -- If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. -Ronald Reagan-
