Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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| reply to footballdude
Re: lost commerce
Right- except the money the people payed for bullets got spent mostly on bullets.
The money people were (forced) to pay in tax dollars in order to subsidize the telco deployment was quite obviously spent mainly on increasing profit instead of what it was intended to be spent on (current state of broadband affairs proves this quite nicely).
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dispatcher21
join:2004-01-22
united state
| "Spent mainly on increasing profit instead of what it was intended to be spent on" What was it intended to be spent on? From my understanding the tax untax we were forced to pay on our phone bills had nothing to do with broadband, it is for the phone portion of the telco business and it was not intended to be put into an upgrade fund, it was intended to help the phone companies maintain the network at hand and allow more people access to it. Again, you only have to be serviced with a dial tone and they have met the inteded purpose of the "tax not really a tax" fee since it has nothing to do with broadband but with dial tone. |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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| Sadly the book is no longer available for download, but this and many more questions were answered inside the 200bn dollar broadband scandal book that there was a news article here about.
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to dispatcher21
Tsume is correct and you are speaking on something you obviously have not researched or kept up with.
They received a couple hundred billion dollars at their request and promise to deliver symetrical 20mb broadband. Not this crap we have now.
Do you have any idea how much "profit" these guys have reported in that last quarter alone? So why are they being subsidized at all? |
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footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| reply to Tsume
said by Tsume  :The money people were (forced) to pay in tax dollars in order to subsidize the telco deployment was quite obviously spent mainly on increasing profit instead of what it was intended to be spent on (current state of broadband affairs proves this quite nicely). At what point did the telcos say 'give us money so we can build a broadband network'? Any money paid in the past was to build the current copper network, which works very nicely and is available everywhere.
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batterup
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join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
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| reply to Skippy25
said by Skippy25 :Tsume is correct and you are speaking on something you obviously have not researched or kept up with. They received a couple hundred billion dollars at their request and promise to deliver symetrical 20mb broadband. Not this crap we have now. Do you have any idea how much "profit" these guys have reported in that last quarter alone? So why are they being subsidized at all? Post a link that does not lead to Teletruth as Teletruth does not list where it pulled the information from. Post the agreement between who and what. You don't even know who or what do you? |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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| reply to footballdude
I believe an agreement was made between the govt and the telcos- I don't think the telcos simply said 'give us money so we can make this' - after all it is the government who makes the laws for adding taxes.
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footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
| said by Tsume :I believe an agreement was made between the govt and the telcos- I don't think the telcos simply said 'give us money so we can make this' - after all it is the government who makes the laws for adding taxes. I can remember something like that happening in Pennsylvania with Verizon but I don't remember any sweeping federal legislation.
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