 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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 ·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to DataRiker
Re: Since I swtiched from ATT I don't go over 150gb Not since 2003, or so, on my old AT&T bill. Not on my latest Sonic.net, LLC bill, either.
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Norman
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| Norman,
Telcos got enough money before you stopped paying USF to last a lifetime.
Don't really see your justification here. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by ANONDOG :Norman,
Telcos got enough money before you stopped paying USF to last a lifetime.
Don't really see your justification here.
Not trying to "justify" anything. Just trying to understand:
A:) Why people make claims as if they were factual without factual support.
B:) What any of this has to do with caps.
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Norman
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4 edits | The USF was a slush fund until 2011 and will continue to be that probably forever under a different name.
The FCC being completely incompetent has relegated decision making about worthiness of USF funds for particular areas up to the Telco's themselves.
This has resulted in time after time the telco's using this money for well to do suburban areas. ( or to millionaire subdivisions )
And on the front page today the article reads "AT&T Mulls Upgrading Rural Lines Instead Of Selling Them"
Poor rural areas is specifically what USF was designed for.
And for CAPS, the last time I checked DSL was served over phone lines and in some ( many?) cases phone lines payed for completely by tax payers. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| said by DataRiker:And for CAPS, the last time I checked DSL was served over phone lines and in some ( many?) cases phone lines payed for completely by tax payers.
No, they were not.
In any case, DSL does not impose any additional requirements for the "Last Mile" of copper in any manner that requires data caps.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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4 edits | As someone who spends a lot of time in poor rural areas I can tell you DSL is a major player in rural broadband. ( As in the only type south of where I live and west too )
Getting lines subsidized then offering capped and extremely slow broadband services over those lines is a little irksome.
Its a very simple principle.
There is not a rural telco in the US during the 90s-2000s that didn't take USF funds. |
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