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Re: Changing the rules in the middle of the game ...Stop using logic and common sense, these people want everything for free, the free lunch club think Obama will give them everything |
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 bmccoy
join:2013-03-18
Port Orchard, WA
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to fiosultimate
Did you seriously join DSLReports just to moan and whine about people who know that the broadband in America is terrible? And, nobody is complaining about internet not being free, we're complaining about internet being horribly overpriced and the ISPs being greedy and screwing over their customers by nickel & diming them to death. |
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Business are in it to maximize profits, they are doing what they were built to do, I get upset a nice Ferrari I want is 1 million dollars, I don't whine about it
Ferrarri is selling it at the market price, set by people, same as most if not all businesses, there is nothing " unfair" about it, become a millionaire and u can buy most of the things u want, this is america |
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atcotr
Anon
2014-Jul-8 7:07 pm
Local government granted monopolies are fair? |
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to fiosultimate
There's nothing unfair about a monopoly? |
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Brim77
join:2012-03-16
Lansing, MI
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to fiosultimate
The Telco's promised to build us Ferraris at a Chevy price in exchange for favorable regulations and tax breaks that the American public (you are included in that) paid for. Now they have our money and continue to charge modern Cadillac prices, every year, for the same crappy, '98 Malibu. Yet, the rest of the 1st/2nd/3rd world countries continue to get better broadband speeds at lower prices than the USA. This is America alright, "Were 31!!" in worldwide broadband speed. Feeling proud yet? |
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Anon
2014-Jul-9 5:03 am
to atcotr
If the prices are the same or lower and the service just as good or better. I deem it entirely fair IMHO. No? |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium Member
join:2000-01-17
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to fiosultimate
They are right. at&t and Verizon believe the FCC will give them everything, so you could say Obama. |
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 ieolusSupport The Clecs
join:2001-06-19
Danbury, CT |
to fiosultimate
When the last-mile broadband market is as "free" as the car market for every person in this Country, then I will agree with you. Not before. |
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ITGeeks
join:2014-04-20
Cleveland, OH |
to fiosultimate
Not true for all of those who support the President but that has nothing to do with this. The ones that want things for free is a majority on here that think Internet should be free, a utility, regulated to cost countless in taxes and should be 5gig/5gig for $20 per month. |
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to atcotr
Anyone is free to compete. That's called Free Enterprise and Free Markets |
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to Brim77
And you're comparing those same countries where the Gov't OWNS the telephone and all media companies and people are packed into apartment/condos like ants. |
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to KrK
The FCC was giving things away well before President Obama. The fact is the FCC doesn't regulate the Internet and TWC and Comcast could create an ISP such as @Home all over again, bring it to both companies and the FCC couldn't do anything about it. |
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Brim77
join:2012-03-16
Lansing, MI
1 recommendation |
to ITGeeks
The US invented the Internet. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE that we are slower than countries like Macau, Andorra, Estonia, or for God's sake the REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA! Its an even more piss poor excuse to say that these countries are faster than the USA because "socialism". So the best that the inventors of the Internet came up with, the product of American companies competing in a "highly competitive, free-market society," is only good for 31st place? |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium Member
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK Netgear WNDR3700v2
Zoom 5341J
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KrK to ITGeeks
Premium Member
2014-Jul-10 12:58 am
to ITGeeks
Correct, and correct. So called Obama phones for example are actually Bush Phones.... but I digress. I have no problem at this late stage in the game for the minimum definition of broadband to be raised. It's not like it really means anything, other then perhaps shaming the ISP's who don't or won't upgrade. |
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KrK to Brim77
Premium Member
2014-Jul-10 1:00 am
to Brim77
If it wasn't for the pressure Google applied, we'd me MUCH further down.....
Even so, our price paid/service delivered ratio places us at among the costliest in the world. |
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ITGeeks
join:2014-04-20
Cleveland, OH |
to KrK
Who is going to define broadband? An agency that has no power to do so? |
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to KrK
what pressure? the pressure to show that cities and people will push for anything and everything regardless of they get it or not?????? |
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