 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to pnh102
Re: No Policy Needed said by pnh102:We don't need a "National Broadband Policy" but not because of anything that Discovery Institute says. We've had robust growth and deployment of broadband in most areas of the country in the past 10 years, almost all of which was a result of private sector investment. All of this was done without the involvement of the federal government. These deployments continue to this day again without any involvement from the federal government. Yes, we have had robust deployment ... of 10 year old technology. It's time the government stepped in and either forced the private sector to deploy the latest technology or do it themselves. Otherwise we face becoming a technology backwater country as the vast majority of broadband available is not adequate and needs to be advanced at a rate that maintains pace (or exceeds) other countries. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Matt:Yes, we have had robust deployment ... of 10 year old technology. FIOS is 10 years old? Even cable modem speeds and traditional DSL speeds are increasing. The end user doesn't care what the technology is on the other end of the connection as long as it works as he or she expects it to work.
said by Matt: It's time the government stepped in and either forced the private sector to deploy the latest technology or do it themselves. The feds did this with ethanol. Have you seen what's happened to the price of anything made with corn lately? We're about to see the same thing happen with wind and solar power. All of these are pie-in-the-sky fantasyland technologies that are only "cheap" when the proven solutions that they are intented to replace are expensive.
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by pnh102:said by Matt:Yes, we have had robust deployment ... of 10 year old technology. FIOS is 10 years old? Even cable modem speeds and traditional DSL speeds are increasing. The end user doesn't care what the technology is on the other end of the connection as long as it works as he or she expects it to work. said by Matt: It's time the government stepped in and either forced the private sector to deploy the latest technology or do it themselves. The feds did this with ethanol. Have you seen what's happened to the price of anything made with corn lately? We're about to see the same thing happen with wind and solar power. All of these are pie-in-the-sky fantasyland technologies that are only "cheap" when the proven solutions that they are intented to replace are expensive. Aside from FiOS and surgical DOCSIS 3.0 deployments, yes, we're dealing with 10-year old technology. AT&T is milking DSL and Time Warner is still DOCSIS 1.1.
I have no idea about your corn analogy, but I doubt it's even remotely similar. |
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Pleasant Hill, MO | At least they are doing VDSL in some places, I think they should switch to VSDL2, but still it beats nothing. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to Matt
said by Matt:Aside from FiOS and surgical DOCSIS 3.0 deployments, yes, we're dealing with 10-year old technology. AT&T is milking DSL and Time Warner is still DOCSIS 1.1. And why are these bad things? There is absolutely nothing wrong with milking an existing technology to its usable limits.
said by Matt:I have no idea about your corn analogy, but I doubt it's even remotely similar. Ethanol as a motor vehicle fuel exists because the US government decided that it should. It costs much more to make than ordinary gasoline and is less powerful. Because it also requires a lot of corn to produce, it raises demand, and therefore the price, of corn and anything else made with corn.
I mention it because any government-mandated standard for broadband will have the same result. My guess is that a lot of smaller ISPs will simply throw in the towel because they won't be able to deploy to mandated standards, and the bigger ISPs will simply buy themselves protections in any standard that is mandated.
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by pnh102:said by Matt:Aside from FiOS and surgical DOCSIS 3.0 deployments, yes, we're dealing with 10-year old technology. AT&T is milking DSL and Time Warner is still DOCSIS 1.1. And why are these bad things? There is absolutely nothing wrong with milking an existing technology to its usable limits. said by Matt:I have no idea about your corn analogy, but I doubt it's even remotely similar. Ethanol as a motor vehicle fuel exists because the US government decided that it should. It costs much more to make than ordinary gasoline and is less powerful. Because it also requires a lot of corn to produce, it raises demand, and therefore the price, of corn and anything else made with corn. I mention it because any government-mandated standard for broadband will have the same result. My guess is that a lot of smaller ISPs will simply throw in the towel because they won't be able to deploy to mandated standards, and the bigger ISPs will simply buy themselves protections in any standard that is mandated. Ethanol is not the ubiquitous fuel. So that analogy doesn't mean much to me. If the government decided to subsidize corn farmers even further by requiring ethanol, so what? They mix it with gasoline here in NC in the winter months to reduce emissions. So there is a use for other than usage as a lone fuel.
And you're right about milking a technology to its usable limits. We passed the limit of DOCSIS 1.1 and DSL years ago. That's why we're right above Estonia (I think) in broadband price per megabit while other industrialized nations are enjoying super-fast internet connections for less than we pay for a couple mbps. |
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 GlobalMindDomino Dude, POWER Systems GuyPremium
join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:Ethanol as a motor vehicle fuel exists because the US government decided that it should. It costs much more to make than ordinary gasoline and is less powerful. Ok Off topic but I need to comment here.
Ethanol's existed well before the US Govt decided to get behind it. It does use more energy to create in the form we make it today, but that does not have to be the case.
By the way, ethanol is NOT less powerful than gasoline. That's pure fabrication, just ask the folks who outfitted a Z06 to run ethanol as the pace car for the Indy 500 or perhaps the Corvette team in ALMS who's run ethanol for several years now. At least for the pace car, they got more HP out of the ethanol conversion, and that's coming from the Vette engineers directly.
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