 Steve MehsGun Control Is Using A Steady HandPremium
join:2005-07-16 | reply to aerith
Re: Best quote by Karl Bode is Wow, that’s the worst thing my eyes have ever been subjected to reading.
1) The last thing that is needed is the government to have any involvement is in broadband. Let private businesses compete and leave them alone. The government has absolutely no right to say how fast and how much an ISP must sell their service for.
2) I do not so much as one red cent of tax money to toward some ‘Universal Broadband’ nonsense
3) Let’s keep our own routers, so that we, as individuals and consumers have direct control over our home networks. There is absolutely no reason at all for my two desktops, laptop, two PDAs, two smartphones, tablet, MP3 Player, TV, Blu Ray Player, A/V Receiver, two DirecTV DVRs, Xbox 360, PS3 and printer to have their own public IP addresses. And I like the fact I can manage network access of all of these devices from one central location.
Good thing all of your wishes are a pipedream, and thankfully they weill never happen.
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For the future of our nation, we must unite and vote out the terrorist known as Hussein Obama. Come November 6 2012 we must remove the socialist pig out of office and get our country back on the RIGHT track. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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·Comcast
| Yep. If a local government wants to do FTTH and it gets voted in by its constituents, that's okay. If someone else wants to do a super high speed wireless network, that's fine too. The key here is allowing/pushing everyone to use the resources available to make 'net access more ubiquitous, more reliable and more functional (higher speeds, lower latency, etc.).
To this tune, a government that is less powerful to regulate can't pass statewide franchising for TV services, so U-Verse can cherry pick areas with brazen abandon. That government also wouldn't be able to outlaw a utility from creating their own FTTH network (compare Texas utilities to Chattanooga EPB).
In this same vein, licensed wireless spectrum is great...as long as it's being used. if it isn't, then it's being wasted. Maybe there needs to be a smaller-area "homestead clause" for large region AWS and other licenses such that, if T-Mobile or CricKet won't build out an area of their license, they need to find someone who will.
For "the rest of us", more spectrum like 3.65GHz ("light licensed") would be amazing, particularly at lower frequencies. Less profitable for the US government? Yep, but 3.65 has allowed wireless ISPs to set up cheap, reliable "middle mile" networks at 100+ Mbps (which is a lot in a more rural area) and serve more folks wiht better access than would otherwise happen. |
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| "If a local government wants to do FTTH and it gets voted in by its constituents, that's okay."
With the EPB project the constituents (or rate payers) didn't get to vote for anything. Now EPB has a choice. Raise rates to cover expenses or expand into more areas while running more private businesses out of business. They have already raised electric rates to cover the money spent on the fiber network. I guess now that they are moving in to home automation, home networking, hosted pbx, and rumored alarm systems they have chosen to go after more private businesses to make their bottom line.
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I do not, have not, and will not work for AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/Charter or similar sized company. |
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You really do live under a rock. We've heard your ilks rant about the private sector and against our government for decades now. 30 years later (i.e. post Reaganomics/trickle-down) and we rank close to dead last in everything but defense; where you guys send close to a trillion a year, with little concern about ROI.
Millions of Americans only have access to less than a few megs broadband speeds, yet you have the nerve (ignorance) to claim we should continue to leave it up to the same private sector that has failed them; that does not deem these Americas profitable enough for them to service.
We need to vote every one of your 18th century TEAnutter ilk out of office and send you back to the swamps. Time for the rest of America, as in those of us who pay for the bills and actually contribute the majority to the GDP (Democrats) to push forward. As in, the uber liberal and world leading San Fran/San Jose area. |
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·Callcentric
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100Mhz of spectrum somewhere should be freed up for the use of the community. This way, it leaves enough bandwidth to run LET-advanced at full speed and will not interfere with anything else.
This is a must for anyone who lives in rural areas. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
| LTE and other similar techs work best when a license holder has exclusive rights to that spectrum.
Now, if you're suggesting that 100MHz be offered at a lowish price on a short term, subject to a buildout requirement (you lose the spectrum if you don't build out to 70% of the people it covers within two years, otherwise you have a 7-year license), that could work. Auction off four 10x10 paired allotments (a provider can buy at most two) and one 20MHz unpaired allotment, with a buying power clause that gives businesses already in the community 20% more bidding credits vs. anyone else, and you've got yourself a workable system. |
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said by battleop:"If a local government wants to do FTTH and it gets voted in by its constituents, that's okay."
With the EPB project the constituents (or rate payers) didn't get to vote for anything. Now EPB has a choice. Raise rates to cover expenses or expand into more areas while running more private businesses out of business. They have already raised electric rates to cover the money spent on the fiber network. I guess now that they are moving in to home automation, home networking, hosted pbx, and rumored alarm systems they have chosen to go after more private businesses to make their bottom line.
Do you actually believe your own lies?
EPB's electric rates were raised to cover the cost of two massive storms that damaged the public electric grid in February: »www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011···ncrease/
The key quote: "Without revenues from the utility’s telecom, TV and video divisions, the rate hike would be at least twice as much, said Harold DePriest, president and CEO of EPB"
Now shut it about EPB- no one wants to hear you spew the same trash over and over again. |
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said by Telco:You really do live under a rock. We've heard your ilks rant about the private sector and against our government for decades now. 30 years later (i.e. post Reaganomics/trickle-down) and we rank close to dead last in everything but defense; where you guys send close to a trillion a year, with little concern about ROI.
Millions of Americans only have access to less than a few megs broadband speeds, yet you have the nerve (ignorance) to claim we should continue to leave it up to the same private sector that has failed them; that does not deem these Americas profitable enough for them to service.
We need to vote every one of your 18th century TEAnutter ilk out of office and send you back to the swamps. Time for the rest of America, as in those of us who pay for the bills and actually contribute the majority to the GDP (Democrats) to push forward. As in, the uber liberal and world leading San Fran/San Jose area.
R's are insane, but Democrats are corrupt. After all the current FCC head is Obama's choice- and college buddy/roomate or something. |
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"EPB's electric rates were raised to cover the cost of two massive storms that damaged the public electric grid in February"
They are using the rate increase to replenish their reserves that was tapped for the fiber build. That money should have never been used for anything but an emergency fund, not to build a fiber network.
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