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Re: Merger question

"Because you seem to think that I'm picking a fight with you when I'm not. No need to take your frustration out on me."

Not at all. Just trying to keep up with the progress of broadband expansion. But I've encountered people who take umbrage at that and they have standard lines. "Move to where the broadband is" is one of them.
I understand that broadband will not be on my doorstep tommorrow, but it will be at some point. That's not a complaint, just an observation, but some take it otherwise.

And I think that it's a stupid line. Rural America needs to be wired with broadband. While I don't believe that high-speed internet is a right, I do believe that it should be universally available.

The problem is expense. As we all know, it's not a cheap proposition. What I don't get are the people who attack companies like CTL for not offering it where they are, and lay into them because they wire up where the money is. Well of course they do! I don't like it, but that capitalism at it's best (or worst)!

I guess the better line is be prepared "hurry up and wait".
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The goal of the broadcast engineer is to get all the meters on the transmitter to go as far to the right as possible!!

Exactly. I know all about 'hurry up and wait', thanks to Uncle Sam. I'm just keeping an ear out for developments and ensuring I'm ready to capitilize when they come about. Our area is becoming more desirable for broadband deployment. Some folks on this forum have hit Google Earth and come back with the observation that we are in the boonies. Not exactly, but it's not the big city either. However, since we did not have the meteoric rise in housing prices experienced elsewhere, we are recovering a little faster. Eventually even the ISP's will figure out there is money to be made here.

You know, we've been beating this dead horse for a while now and no one has addressed the original post. Is that a well kept secret or is there no one here who knows?

Yes, those are the terms of the FCC. 90% in three years. I don't know the specific penalties for not doing so, I imagine we'll be fined into oblivion.

So it's either spend money on infrastructure or give it to the FCC? That almost smacks of shrewdness on the FCC's part. An incentive to expand with at least a potential of profit, or give it to the government so it can be wasted properly. Thanks, Ring. That's some actual info that makes sense.

Ya gotta love how the FCC rolls!