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Earth, TX | I'm stuck @ 1.544/384... Say it with me AT&T, "last mile", "under-served customers". Let's work on those too please. |
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1 edit | said by manfmmd:@ 1.544/384... Say it with me AT&T, "last mile", "under-served customers". Let's work on those too please. What's even better is that I just used the Find Service (what a joke) link here on BBR and it offers service for my address from Comcast....but Comcast doesn't have service in my town and the existing CableCo is a joke with their pricing AND their caps: »Re: What's the worst broadband package out there?
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Chicago, IL | said by manfmmd:said by manfmmd:@ 1.544/384... Say it with me AT&T, "last mile", "under-served customers". Let's work on those too please. What's even better is that I just used the Find Service (what a joke) link here on BBR and it offers service for my address from Comcast....but Comcast doesn't have service in my town and the existing CableCo is a joke with their pricing AND their caps: » Re: What's the worst broadband package out there? Ha! Sweet irony. The person with a Ronald Reagan quote in his signature is complaining about how unrestrained corporate greed has screwed him and left him without needed services. 
Want 100% national broadband coverage, healthy competition with a dozen providers competing for your business, choice of prices, packages, speeds, technologies....support stricter regulation.
Want "free enterprise"? You get "CableCo is a joke with their pricing AND their caps"
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| Oh, how wrong you are. It's called a local monopoly over the cable system and AT&T's unwillingness to better serve their customers in my area. I am all for 100% broadband coverage, but keep the government out of it. Open the cable plant up to competing companies, open the copper up to CLEC's and other competitors, etc...
They are providing a 'needed service', but it's a luxury item, not a required service such as electricty, sewer, and water. I can get or have DSL and/or Cable, ... I was simply stating my disgust for AT&T not having upgraded their infrastructure in my area. The government has no business (other than via regulation via the FCC for network neutrality - I do believe we need some regulation there) in providing broadband for all nor controlling the prices for said service. I pay enough money for other peoples shit, don't take more out of my paycheck.
I happen to think that my city/CableCo is preventing AT&T from rolling out U-Verse as it has been rolled out in surrounding cities that are much smaller than my own. FFS, my city is the county seat and we still cannot get our services upgraded.
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kapilThe Kapil
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Chicago, IL | said by manfmmd:Oh, how wrong you are. It's called a local monopoly over the cable system and AT&T's unwillingness to better serve their customers in my area. I am all for 100% broadband coverage, but keep the government out of it. Open the cable plant up to competing companies, open the copper up to CLEC's and other competitors, etc... They are providing a 'needed service', but it's a luxury item, not a required service such as electricty, sewer, and water. I can get or have DSL and/or Cable, ... I was simply stating my disgust for AT&T not having upgraded their infrastructure in my area. The government has no business (other than via regulation via the FCC for network neutrality - I do believe we need some regulation there) in providing broadband for all nor controlling the prices for said service. I pay enough money for other peoples shit, don't take more out of my paycheck. I happen to think that my city/CableCo is preventing AT&T from rolling out U-Verse as it has been rolled out in surrounding cities that are much smaller than my own. FFS, my city is the county seat and we still cannot get our services upgraded. Then you, dear friend, deserve exactly what you are getting.
Not for nothin', but it's been well documented on this site and elsewhere that in states where the ILECs have managed to buy their way into a state-wide franchise and done away with local control, the end result has been abysmal for consumers.
There needs to be reasonable and sensible control over commerce. Because if there isn't...well, we end up where we have.
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How am I getting what I deserve? I have no problem, like I said, with the government regulating monopolies and net neutrality and wish they would do more in that arena (not less as they have in recent years)... I do however have an issue with using tax dollars to build out private infrastructure.
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kapilThe Kapil
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Chicago, IL | said by manfmmd:How am I getting what I deserve? I have no problem, like I said, with the government regulating monopolies and net neutrality and wish they would do more in that arena (not less as they have in recent years)... I do however have an issue with using tax dollars to build out private infrastructure. It wouldn't be any more "private infrastructure" than paved roads or fire departments are. Infrastructure should either be A) publicly owned so it can be leased to all comers fairly or B) owned by an infrastructure company that is a regulated monopoly forced, by law, to do business with competing "retail" service providers on an even playing field and not allowed to compete for end users.
Much like electricity or natural gas utility companies....they can be privately owned companies allowed to operate as a monopoly but heavily regulated or publicly owned like the TVA. Either way, the citizens get essential services at a fair price without greed becoming the primary motivation.
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