oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
| Yep, and California sure knows power
Of all the problems California power has, how about PG&E, SDG&E, SCE start repairing and expanding their infrastructure before wasting more money (and crying the the CPUC for rate increases) on questionable technology with no standards and that offers nothing that cable, WISP and xDSL don't already offer. There are easier, cheaper ways to deploy WISP than involving California power distributors, especially since more and more of California residences use underground utilities services that stretch FAR outside the servicable area of Wi-Fi (esp in SoCal where UG utilities have been installed in tract developments nearly exclusively since the late 60's).
If these distributors have the money to waste on this (all while crying poverty to the CPUC), then they have too much and the PUC should order some returned to their customers.
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WangFubar
join:2003-10-02
Paradise, CA
| I eagerly welcome any broadband here, but I agree that PG&E claimed that they were bankrupt and strong armed the rate payers into enormous rate increases. If they have capital to startup a new division and deploy broadband, I think its time for CPUC to re evaluate the rates we are paying. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
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This is the same thing the phone companies are doing now.
While the dial tone is regulated, other services are not. They charge as much as they can for Caller ID, Call Waiting, etc. This is how they make money over and above the tint profit margins allowed by the PUC's.
Now, with the situation in California, this is just another money making scheme that can't be controled by the government. |
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oliphant5
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Corona, CA | Hopefully the CPUC will take this into consideration before they take another increase. |
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