Making universal broadband service a reality

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Farmers can telecommute? Traffic must be a bitch in rural Kansas.

So we have roughly 111million households in the U.S. and only 1.11million are missing out on broadband? I wonder what percentage of those 1.11million if they recieve broadband internet suddenly would be starting internet business' and trading stocks with London?

Once the politicians, activists, and lobbyists get a hold of this, those rural areas will never see a new cell tower or cable for a hundreds miles.

It really doesn't matter what they use it for but what the problem with making it available?

James

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Flexin

It really doesn't matter what they use it for but what the problem with making it available?

James

I don't care if they have access to it.

I do care if the government is doing it (even under the pretense that it will boost our economy). I don't trust the US Government one bit and I really do not like them near our communications (especially with such free flowing information such as the internet). The farther away they are from communications the happier I am and the better it is for our republic.

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

I don't care if they have access to it.

I do care if the government is doing it (even under the pretense that it will boost our economy). I don't trust the US Government one bit and I really do not like them near our communications (especially with such free flowing information such as the internet). The farther away they are from communications the happier I am and the better it is for our republic.

All they are going to do is to help fund it so companies have a reason to offer the service. They are not going to offer it or run it. BTW they don't need to run it to gain access to it.

And this is a quote from you

"So we have roughly 111million households in the U.S. and only 1.11million are missing out on broadband?"

What kind of info do you think they are getting that they need to get the last 1.11 million of people online with high speed internet?

I don't know what it is that people are worried about them getting.

James

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Flexin

It really doesn't matter what they use it for but what the problem with making it available?

James

I have 2 problems:
1) Why is high-speed internet considered a "right"?
2) More importantly, the cost per person reached has gotta be much higher in sparsely-populated areas. In some places you could put up a tower that would only reach 2-3 people.

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

I have 2 problems:
1) Why is high-speed internet considered a "right"?
2) More importantly, the cost per person reached has gotta be much higher in sparsely-populated areas. In some places you could put up a tower that would only reach 2-3 people.

Maybe I missed where they called it a "right". They believe that it will help by people and the economy by making it available to as many people as possible.

Yes the cost per person is higher thats why the government wants to step in and help with funding so that this service can be offered.

James

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Flexin

It really doesn't matter what they use it for but what the problem with making it available?

James

YOU pay for it.

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Sean

YOU pay for it.

YOU also paid for those robo toilet seats back in the day that car collecting dust somewhere in a back room (I think they did sell them off years ago but they were collecting dust). At least this is something that will be used and can also be helpful as unknownroad pointed out.

James

[Sean]

So now Netflix is an inalienable right?

[unknownroad]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Farmers can telecommute? Traffic must be a bitch in rural Kansas.

Really decided to run with the gross display of ignorance thing, eh?

Originally Posted by Sean

So now Netflix is an inalienable right?

Totally.

What we're talking about is investing public funds in modern communications infrastructure via grants and loans. Infrastructure = public good.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by unknownroad

Really decided to run with the gross display of ignorance thing, eh?
.

What ignorance? You're the one who came up with some bullshit example about "motorcycle parts dealers" in rural bumble fuck and how you can buy parts bikes cheap and sell them on Ebay (tax free by the way so that's giong to help us greatly) and how someone needs broadband to do that.

Motorcycle parts???
http://www.bikersindex.com/junkyards.html
They better get some broadband for all that HD flash shit you need to view the webpage.

Copper and Fiberoptic cables are very expensive by themselves. The cost to put that stuff up or bury it is pretty big too. I wonder how much it'd cost to just get locates for 10miles of copper to some jokers house in the middle of South Carolina?