said by tshirt: Sometimes you have to invest yourself, particularly when others (wall st) doesn't share your vision or goals.
Exactly. Until Frontier (ex-Verizon.. ex-GTE)... comes along, skips over your voice, talks to a few people (literally) in the government and gets their law they wrote passed and added into the state's administrative codes.
Then you're just left wondering if it isn't just better to let federal broadband stimulus grants be easily acquired by the "public" and then have hardware from that placed in locations that won't compete with private networks in the area while cherry picking small micro areas to serve a few select customers who HAVE to be served by said private network who has to invest the cost of a truck roll and about 30 minutes of installing things, literally. I mean that's a great use of public monies for a service that costs more than one with speeds almost 100 times faster.
Seriously, the public who wanted to invest in their own future should be so lucky to provide such easy profits to private industry on their own publicly bought infrastructure.
Oh, and if for instance there was a large disaster in the area with lots of large infrastructure payouts from federal public money, it would be totally ok to dig in multiple new fiber routes that are owned privately and that serve very large telecommunication companies. The ones that transit through a rural area that has a huge satellite gateway all of which might be getting paid for with those emergency federal dollars and that will certainly enhance the well being of this poor struggling sector which undoubtedly needed the infusion of millions of dollars in an amount that easily eclipsed the amount that would of covered federal payouts for private individual losses.
But in the end, we have to protect what is "vital" and obviously that is profits before people.