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join:2002-01-19
Santa Clara, CA

reply to slynerve

Re: core reasons

said by slynerve:

said by openbox9:

Wow, PDOOMA much?

The bottom line most definitely isn't mythical. Is yours? Also, with a 1000% ROI in a matter of weeks, it's unfathomable as to why these silly ISPs haven't built the infrastructure yet

Wow, really? What kind of world are you living in where the monetary drop in the pond it'd take to get rural communities going would at all hurt companies worth millions, perhaps billions?

Excuse me for not playing the woe is the telco card. I have personal experience in trying to get a WISP going and it was a nightmare of redtape and local telco and cable blockading everything.

Prices from other markets and the fact America is largely a duopoly of cable and DSL/fiber, along with TV price hikes, well. They'd more than make up that investment in giving a scattering of people access to speeds above 3MB.

In Australia the cost on national fiber to over 90% citizens has been put at $40billion, or about the cost of 20 weeks of Iraq war.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_B···_Network

Meanwhile here anti technology ATT offers dialup. Even police gangs are unhappy.

Some Arizona Department of Public Safety computers remain on dial-up:

"The dial-up internet connection is extremely slow and inconsistent, .06 megabits per second. There are often two officers sharing this slow connection, which makes for even slower speeds and less consistent service. Some of the videos on the intranet and training sites are five, ten or even fifty megabytes, which means it often takes from four to twenty hours to download some of the videos and files necessary for training or other work related items"


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