| Only 11.1% can't get it! That's great! I thought it was much much higher!
Don't understand why the rest of us must fund the 11.1%.
If you want it and can't get it, move to where you can.
I want open spaces. I am told I would need to move. Maybe the rest of you should pay to have my neighbor's houses moved away from me? |
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| said by AstroBoy:If you want it and can't get it, move to where you can. That's not a solution. Broadband (while nice) isn't a sticking point if you're choosing to live somewhere (or if you have no choice where you live/work -- think farmers and school districts). There's a lot of rural America that could benefit from good quality broadband. Nobody wants to pay exorbitant prices for terrible satellite service. People want to pay decent prices for broadband, and with such a lack of competition in rural places this is not happening. |
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 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
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said by AstroBoy:That's great! I thought it was much much higher! Don't understand why the rest of us must fund the 11.1%. If you want it and can't get it, move to where you can. I want open spaces. I am told I would need to move. Maybe the rest of you should pay to have my neighbor's houses moved away from me? Broadband service happens to be considerably easier to introduce than open spaces in a suburb are.
People who live in rural areas(like me) don't want ultrawtf500gigawattfibertothebrain internet(although it would be nice), we just want something that's fast enough to use the internet with, and isn't a crappy, debilitating satellite scam service.
Heck, I would be perfectly satisfied with even something low like a 128k/128k ISDN connection. At least then I could use VOIP and stuff. But I will probably never even see that speed where I live atm, and I'm not even that far away from civilization(3.5 miles from where comcast cable stops...) |
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 old_dawg"I Know Noting..."
join:2001-09-22
Westminster, MD | reply to AstroBoy
said by AstroBoy:If you want it and can't get it, move to where you can. Not to misunderstand your statement or harsh your mellow, but perhaps you are benefiting from a highway, park, stadium that those 11% helped pay for via taxes, bonds,etc. that they will never use. Just a thought.
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| said by old_dawg:said by AstroBoy:If you want it and can't get it, move to where you can. Not to misunderstand your statement or harsh your mellow, but perhaps you are benefiting from a highway, park, stadium that those 11% helped pay for via taxes, bonds,etc. that they will never use. Just a thought. Since traffic is much higher where I live, I bet I paid more for their roads. I don't have a park within walking distance. And I will never go the the 2 stadiums built with school funding. In my state they passed the lottery promising to use the profits on the schools. The lottery paid for 1 or both stadiums. I feel like I was lied to.
I just think the rural and urban areas have pluses and minuses. Urban people should not pay for rural minuses unless rural people are going to pay for urban minuses.
I would prefer to live in the middle of nowhere, but I need a job, so I live within a few miles of a major city. I get traffic noise 24/7, higher crime rates and 25/15Mb internet. Would you like to pay to have my land sound-proofed? Or pay for a 24/7 guard to protect my propriety? |
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