jmargel
join:2001-03-07
Northumberland, PA
| Monopolies galore in PA
Doesnt surpise me. I live in PA. They seem to fck up everything that could be good. I think it's a personal goal of theirs.
Central PA has only ONE broadband supplier. Prolog which is a monopoly. Their rates have risen every freakin' year! 500/128 for $40 a month, plus you are required to purchase a cable package at $35 a month. This is against anti-trust policies, but hell it's PA. Apparently laws are only to be followed by the common folk.
This crap will never end until broadband, internet & such have so many laws regarding their use, etc.. that it'll be unusable. |
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sbhusted
join:2000-05-14
Bethlehem, PA | I pity anyone who has to use ProLag as their broadband provider.
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Cheetah9
join:2001-01-07
Bethel Park, PA
|  reply to jmargel
said by jmargel  :
Doesnt surpise me. I live in PA. They seem to fck up everything that could be good. I think it's a personal goal of theirs. ........
Sure seems like that most times, doesn't it!
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TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
| reply to jmargel
said by jmargel :
Doesnt surpise me. I live in PA. They seem to fck up everything that could be good. I think it's a personal goal of theirs.
No argument there.
This is a state where our roads are shot to hell, so they build a bunch of f!*king stadiums.
About 8 years ago, they decided that there was enough money in the budget to give the lawmakers a raise, and then decided that we needed to jack up the gasoline tax.
Prohibition has been abolished for decades, but you would be able to tell here.
They're all worried about the fact that so many young people are leaving the state, so they decide the should stop it by raising taxes.
Head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. Enough said.
I'm in my mid-30s, I have a family, a house, and a job, so I'm not going anywhere. But if I would have known 15 years ago what I know, I would have left this poor excuses for a state. |
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furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?
join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA
| reply to sbhusted
said by sbhusted :
I pity anyone who has to use ProLag as their broadband provider.
yeah tell me about it...paying $40/month for 1-way cable at 800kbps is just great! oh plus the $25/month for the extra phone line needed to dial up the modem. |
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Is Items Good For America?
join:2002-06-26
Lancaster, PA
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We have more than one broadband solution in most cases. There are several smaller WISPs that everyone always likes to forget about, Verizon, independent DSL entities, and of course Comcast. Prolog isn't even available here.
What is funny about this article is that it propagates the utopian myth of "government competition" with private industry to make good for the citizenry. Does anyone actually believe the government can compete with private industry on even remotely the same levels, or only around election time when it sounds nice? Is government responsible for showing a dime of profit, being held responsible to shareholders, or offering incentives to the community? Untaxed, unlimited state income (that can always be raised until the citizens will revolt and give no more) confiscated from an unsuspecting crowd makes for "great" government fiscal policy time and again. If you think that a politician gets re-elected on the issue of broadband policy, you need to re-examine your priorities and get a life, quite frankly.
I already have concerns about the thought processes that lead to the kind of reckless thinking that prompted anyone to vote for the current Governor who rode into town on the promise of a tax increase (to the tune of 34% and that's just for education of course). The PA legislature is doing this one thing to ensure that this administration doesn't reach even further in our pockets. Boy do we hear the complaints from people who don't even live in this state or, ironically, have fled because of nothing other than the taxes. I applaud fellow Central PA voters for keeping politicians in office who continually resist confiscatory practices by our politicians.
I urge any PA citizen to look at the state liquor stores if they want a good example of what a good state-run monopoly looks like.
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Your Daddy
Premium
join:2001-11-26
Earth
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Uh. I live in Central PA and I have a ton of broadband providers. I don't even think prolog is one of them. I can get DSL and Cable in my area. I could when I lived in Hershey as well. But hey, I guess since all you can get is Prolog, then I guess broadband sucks for the entire central part of PA!
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