decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
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Re: More Proof Government Broadband is Bad
Hello. I have lived in this area all my life.. Services were created and built out sense i've been living here.. Even though there are many people here wishing to have BB service from our local providers, they do not yet provide it.. There are quite a few of us.. Not just some farmer and his cow/goat/whatever he has..
Broadband not a utility? Heh, I think its more so than people realise... If you forget what its like to not have it.. Try dialup for a week.. I bet you won't last.. Just checking my bank account takes 5 minutes... God help me if I want to shop on the internet, watch a video, download software etc.... I love to play fps games, but latency just kills it.. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| said by decifal  :Broadband not a utility? Nope.
Not in the least.
We have billions of people on this planet who get by just fine without broadband. We have millions of people in this country who live just fine without broadband. No one will die if they lack broadband.
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MrHappy316
Wish I had my tank
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join:2003-01-02
Summerville, SC
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| I'll have to agree with some of this assessment, where I currently live was based on lots of research on the availability of broadband. Had it not been available from multiple carriers I would not of moved where I currently live.
I will agree on some of those forced to live in the boonies due to employment or some other factor, they should have multiple choices for broadband just like those of us living in cities. I'm about to be forced to live in the boonies and it looks like a monopoly on broadband services where I'm at (- satellite of course).
But unlike some other folks I was deployed to Afghanistan for a year and relied on satellite broadband to provide internet. Might not be able to play games but at least lets you keep in touch with folks and hop on the internet for other than latency applications without dial up speeds. |
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sapo
I eat meat
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join:2002-09-16
Sacramento, CA
| reply to decifal
Water is a utility... hygiene, hydration, and necessary for to maintain any other organisms such as plants.
Broadband on the other hand... watching videos, checking your bank account, and FPS games hardly compare.
It is a point that has been established a long time ago. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to pnh102
I expect they said the same thing about telephone when it came out. |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | reply to sapo
Telephone service on the other hand... yapping away with friends and relatives. Why do rural folks need telephones anyway? They can use smoke signals or the CB radio.  |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by pnh102 :said by decifal :Broadband not a utility? Nope. Not in the least. We have billions of people on this planet who get by just fine without broadband. We have millions of people in this country who live just fine without broadband. No one will die if they lack broadband. Billions of people get by without running water, why don't you join them? |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| said by patcat88 :Billions of people get by without running water, why don't you join them? And?
Broadband still is not a utility.
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HotRodFoto
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join:2003-04-19
Denver, CO
| said by pnh102 :said by patcat88 :Billions of people get by without running water, why don't you join them? And? Broadband still is not a utility. As I said, in many countries it already IS a utility. The more we move forward, the sooner it becomes one here in America.
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pnh102
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Mount Airy, MD
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| said by HotRodFoto :As I said, in many countries it already IS a utility. The more we move forward, the sooner it becomes one here in America. Other countries simply have higher broadband penetration than we do. That doesn't make it a utility.
And still no one has shown that people need broadband in order to survive, as one can make the case for things like water, power, gas, sewer, garbage pickup, etc.
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HotRodFoto
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join:2003-04-19
Denver, CO
| Sewer? lol you don't need sewer to survive, same with garbage pickup. Just because the American Gov't doesn't think it's not a utility, doesn't mean it isn't, and also this has nada to do with penetration either, case in point--NZ.
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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| said by HotRodFoto :Sewer? lol you don't need sewer to survive, same with garbage pickup. LOL.
Please go read up on how and why cholera and dysentery epidemics occur.
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HotRodFoto
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join:2003-04-19
Denver, CO
| said by pnh102 :said by HotRodFoto :Sewer? lol you don't need sewer to survive, same with garbage pickup. LOL. Please go read up on how and why cholera and dysentery epidemics occur. Touche, go read up on how Ambulances are routed to calls  |
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