truedalife
join:2003-01-10
Brooklyn, MD
| Sad day for the poor Sad day for the poor hard working families. I live in one of these areas in Baltimore, MD. and we'll never see Fios deployment here possibly until the very end of the rebuild.
You know everybody is commenting lately on the abolishment of franchise agreements, but this is the very reason why a franchise agreement is needed. So that no one is left disenfranchised. I should have access to the same communication type services that any other resident in my State has access to.
Again the haves keep getting, while the have not keep getting the shaft. Just my poor 2 cent here! | |
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quetwo
That VoIP Guy
Premium
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI
| Re: Sad day for the poor said by TKJunkMail  :said by truedalife :I should have access to the same communication type services that any other resident in my State has access to. If the company can make a profit and if you can pay for it. Otherwise, get a job, save some money, and move to a better area if you want the BEST broadband service. What if I live in a poorer area (lets say, one of the people trying to revitalize an area, or moving into a trendy old building/loft)? I am able and willing to spend the money to get broadband. How about the middle-class whom often get ignored by mandatory build outs of poor communities, and ignored by the red-liners? | |
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| moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by TKJunkMail :said by truedalife :I should have access to the same communication type services that any other resident in my State has access to. If the company can make a profit and if you can pay for it. Otherwise, get a job, save some money, and move to a better area if you want the BEST broadband service. So are you also upset with the fact that a muni project can be built and a telco or cable company can't say no?
Nearly every muni project is being stopped because of the competition argument yet if a company won't wire an area, that area should be able to get wired up by any way they want INCLUDING a muni. If no cable company or telco is servicing the area, how can a muni be competition? | |
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| | | grandpinaple
join:2006-01-03
New York, NY
| Re: Sad day for the poor If you are a business and broadband is so important to you at high speeds then you will shell out for a T1 or T3. If not then that clearly indicates it to be a luxury that you can live without or can live on dial-up. When you are choosing you the neighborhood you live in and you finally move into one you don't whine about every little thing such as why there is not built in swimming pool or park etc... | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| You're an idiot. Yeah move to get better internet. Any more dumb ideas? Show me someone that does than and I show someone almost as stupid as you.
Do you work for a teleco or something? the lsoers are the CONSUMERS. ALL of them. Bellsouth doesn't need Google to pay them for access. I already pay Bellsouth for that access. WTF do you think my $37.95 is going for? if you think it actually cost Bellsouth $37.95 to provide me with internet acces for a month I have a gold mine in the everglades to sell you. I also give Bellsouth $2.97 a month in a universal service charge so poorer areas can have access ot broadband but now telecos don't have to provide this sercice. Well I want that $2.97 taken off my bill and paid back to me retro-actively. | |
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qdemn7
Smurf in My Loop
Premium
join:2003-09-16
Fort Worth, TX
| Re: Sad day for the poor said by BF69 :You're an idiot. Yeah move to get better internet. Any more dumb ideas? Show me someone that does than and I show someone almost as stupid as you. I suppose all those people who buy a new house and choose to deliberately move to an area that has Verizon FIOS as opposed to AT&T or Comcast are idiots?
The only people that are fools these days and the ones who move and DO NOT check to see if BB is available in that area. And some people in some areas still don't get Cable TV.
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