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Article #230Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: John Higdon
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:09
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:09
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In article <epmdnat677w8VT7WnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d@posted.southvalleyinternet>, Roy <aa4re@aa4re.ampr.org> wrote: > People always seem to want the government to provide some great benefit > as long as someone else pays for it. I never said I wanted something for free. I just don't understand why if I want the same level of Internet service at home that my friends in other countries get, I have to become a CLEC or trench fiber optic circuits from MaeWest to my home. Sure, I could set up a microwave link from one of my clients and make an arrangement to get Internet from them...but that is hardly "easy availability of broadband". -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
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