| Huh? Why are we paying to build this out anyway? People live in the sticks for a reason. If they wanted the full amenities of being in the mainstream areas then they would have chosen those areas. It is bogus to spend our $ to provide access where there may be no demand to warrant this and to a sub-section of the population who chose to live outside the range of these types of amenities! |
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jdmm72
join:2002-02-12
Nitro, WV Reviews:
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| It's worse than that. That money has already been spent here at least once, and the build out never occurred, but the money is locked up or disappeared. WV had a federally funded Broadband fund of $30 mil in 2006 I believe and I don't believe one rural customer benefited from that, nor will they benefit from this.
I believe Verizon was a big recipent of the funds, then they up and left shortly afterwards.
That was before the $126 mil broadband stimulus funds. |
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join:2001-06-20
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ARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enough of this. We all know this money is all going down a rat hole just like all of other such funds. I will say it again. This is an area the government should get into like the Defense Interstate Highway system. What we had for a highway system before WW2 was awful. The USF should go to the long term project of building a national FOIS system, no rat holes, no pork barrel vote for me crap. This build out would take a couple of decades but once the finished would pay off massively. .
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Billings, MT | said by Transmaster:The USF should go to the long term project of building a national FOIS system, no rat holes, no pork barrel vote for me crap. This build out would take a couple of decades but once the finished would pay off massively. . I'm all for it. The problem is, the individual states would have to maintain it. Just add it to the rest of our "taxes".
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:5 | reply to Leon996
said by Leon996 :Why are we paying to build this out anyway? People live in the sticks for a reason. If they wanted the full amenities of being in the mainstream areas then they would have chosen those areas. It is bogus to spend our $ to provide access where there may be no demand to warrant this and to a sub-section of the population who chose to live outside the range of these types of amenities!
I argue this all the time...
We should cut off the food to the douchebags that live in the cities.
Pricks...grow your own food.
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join:2007-03-10
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said by Leon996 :Why are we paying to build this out anyway? People live in the sticks for a reason. If they wanted the full amenities of being in the mainstream areas then they would have chosen those areas. It is bogus to spend our $ to provide access where there may be no demand to warrant this and to a sub-section of the population who chose to live outside the range of these types of amenities!
Um, there are alot of areas not actually in a rural area that is undeserved unfortunately. I personally have all utilities in every direction from me, just not down my road.. Gas/water and sewer for parts of it.. Alot of people in even more so remote places have Uverse, or cable from my experiences while out and about.. Its just a badly filled out product Im thinking.. |
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jdmm72
join:2002-02-12
Nitro, WV Reviews:
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| And you probably could have gas/water and sewer if you paid to interconnect to it, as most people have to do. You have to pay a fee to interconnect to electricity in a new home, to connect to water, and to connect to sewer. Usually cable and telephone is installed for free, but not the other utilities.
My grandparents were told they'd have to pay to interconnect to Suddenlink. |
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jdmm72
join:2002-02-12
Nitro, WV Reviews:
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said by John Galt 
I argue this all the time...
We should cut off the food to the douchebags that live in the cities.
Pricks...grow your own food.
[/BQUOTE :I guess you are for subsistence farming, where no one makes a profit and when times get tough (even for the farmer), you just starve to death, because you can't afford or aren't able to buy food? Tractors/seed/fertilizer/etc cost money, so if you aren't selling your food, how do you afford to keep farming? Oh, and don't forget all the subsidies that farms get, even to the point of not growing corn because it's more profitable to shutter. |
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I would like to add that, when is it a necessity to have dsl? I chose to live out in the sticks, I was happy when I got dsl, but if it never came to my door, I wouldn't expect the government to pay Frontier to make it so, ridiculous. If I needed real high speeds, I went to the library or to macdonalds. |
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