Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| ISP's want to treat subscribers like a Mushrooms!  ISP's want to keep subscribers in the dark and feed them Bull Feces. They make enough money by charging high prices for their service and limiting how subscribers use their service so that they don't need stimulus money. If they take Stimulus Funds they will have to shed some light on how they are making their money and how they are doing business. The Government might stop the cherry picking of subscribers. They might be forced to extend their networks to areas that are not profitable in order to provide universal service. |
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| said by Mr Matt: They might be forced to extend their networks to areas that are not profitable in order to provide universal service. Yes, what company wouldn't want to sign up for that?  |
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 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | reply to Mr Matt
I would right now pay $50 bucks a month just for a low latency 256k/128k connection. That's nowhere near as speedy as anything you people on fast internet would think of would be nice, but for me, on 28k dialup, or any of the frustrated users of satellite service which is just dialup with 3,000ms of latency for $70/month, it would be great for us...
It's not that it isn't profitable, it's that it isn't profitable enough. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Exactly.
In many areas (wasn't it PA?), companies like to promote fiber and all sorts of high speed internet options, but only if the government stays out of its business.
Government is willing to pay (stimulus) to these companies, but want control.
Its a stalemate, in general. The only companies that I would suspect want to take stimulus, are those that are nearing Chapter 11, and have no choice. (eg Frontier, Charter, Fairpoint). The 'big' corps don't like serving rural in general (VZ) and have pulled themselves out of the wireline business in those areas, but are building wireless there (VZW / LTE buildout, Sprint/Nextel/Clearwire / WiMAX).
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| Yeah, rather interesting to see that the former wireline operators (Verizon and AT&T) are now pulling for 700mHz LTE deployments that will probably cover many of the areas Verizon sold off in the landline arena.
Brilliant. Especially when people are used to 5GB mobile caps and thus, having no other alternatives due to being served by a bankrupt telco, are offered 25GB by Verizon or AT&T on their new LTE equipment. |
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I'd almost expect that to be the case:
Business/Cities: POTS exist
Rural: wireless land line over LTE only
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| Actually, there are plenty of rural cell carriers that use Telular gear to offer POTS-style service over a cellular signal right now. not so hot for internet though; I don't know of a single rural carrier that has upgraded to 3G, though some regionals have rolled out EvDO networks (Bluegrass Cellular for example). |
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