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| said by yabos  :It works fine in other countries like S. Korea where the government owns the infrastructure and leases it to companies to sell services on. In a country that small and that densely populated, that's fine. But with the amount of lobbying and - dare i say - corruption in washington, All I see is the government paying out the ass. Seriously, there's no such thing as fiscal responsibility in Washington, and from a government that doesn't see a problem paying $600 for a toilet seat, do you think they'll make even remotely wise investments in broadband infrastructure? Their definition of "broadband" is 128kbps! Now you can at least switch to competition when you have it. If the government takes over you'll have blazing fast 128kbps for life! No more speed jumps from 3mbps-5mbps-8mbps-15mbps thanks to DSL price-competition. Nope. No competition other than on price. Which means no innovation for better technology.
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