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dynodbPremium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to sonicmerlin
Re: meh said by sonicmerlin:This technology is 10 years too late and far too expensive. Wow. Do people really have such a short memory?
Broadband was still in it's infancy 10 years ago. Of those who could get it, 1.5M was fast, upstream speeds of 128k-384k were common, and 256k/256k was quite popular. FTTN and FTTH was almost completely unheard of outside of a pipe dream.
Just 5 years ago 5M was considered fast. | | |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
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| said by dynodb:said by sonicmerlin:This technology is 10 years too late and far too expensive. Wow. Do people really have such a short memory? Unfortunately, its worse than that. People have NO memory.
"I want it all, now. And I want someone else to pay for it."
(Oh, and any firm that risks billions to develop and deploy the technology is evil if they don't deliver it to me immediately at my price. Profit is bad, m-kay?)
I, unfortunately, DO remember when we paid $.25/minute to call across the street, when we had to move to have dialtone to stay in business, when telco considered "data quality" to be 300 baud, when we had exactly *12* wireless phone channels for the whole county, when there was ONE movie channel, no cable, and it was on 6 hours a night, for $20 a month. As a kid, I used to fantasize that "some day" we would have what is now the Cartoon Network and cable television.
Of course, there are still problems with telco, cellco, the cable and broadcast business models and corruption thereof, but what we have today is an order of magnitude better than anything in the past, and in most cases, competition (including mere duopoly) is sufficient to overcome any complaint I might have. | |
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