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Article #217Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: Steve Fenwick
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:51
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:51
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In article <Xns9D404E5D5B49Ethisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote: > John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in > news:higgy-420251.00031719032010@news.announcetech.com: > > > In article > > <Xns9D3F63E056CF3thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, > > DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote: > > > >> Money. If there is no money to be made, no one does > >> anything. > >> > >> Doesn't everything come down to money ? (Rhetorical.) > > > > I'm still not getting this. We pay many times what people > > in countries with *real* Internet service for laughably bad > > Internet service. Where is the hidden money coming from and > > going to? > > 'Real' internet service ? > > Yeah, the 10 mbps d/l speeds I get aren't any better than 56k > dial-up. Sure, and 20 years ago 9600 baud was considered good. So what? New technologies, like streaming IPTV, require more bandwidth. I sincerely doubt John's comments were a personal dig at your service (I'd love 10Mbps; I'm still at a nominal 7Mbps). Steve -- steve <at> w0x0f <dot> com "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, chip shot in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
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