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mlcarson
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Santa Maria, CA

mlcarson

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Competition doesn't exist in rural areas

Competition will never exist in a lot of the rural areas where lack of broadband options is a real problem. USF funds should go directly into fiber rollouts in these areas and not to something like wireless. If even one dollar of USF funds goes into wireless then that provider should be forbidden to use per byte billing.

If you're in a large urban area, you're likely to have at least 1 broadband option and probably several. It shouldn't be the government's role to produce competition so you can save a few dollars per month. Just work on making the service available everywhere first.

MEohME
@wideopenwest.com

MEohME

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It does exist. VZ, ATT, Sprint/Clear/Nextel,. Should I go on? Even WISPs. the fact is people do NOT look. They simply call the local telephone or cable company up and as soon as it is NOT available they cry that we don't get anything and we're left out or we don't have competition. When in fact they do.

and it is NOT the gov'ts place to product competition. It is up to the private sector to do that. NOT the gov't. my tax dollars should NOT go to giving Joe out in BFE FTTH just because he thinks he should have it. Knowing that he never had it available to him to start off with. He has other options. If he wants wired services; he should have moved to where those are available. Instead he gets to use what he has available to him. Just as others do.