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Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid

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From: John Higdon
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:58
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In article <Xns9D3EC322CDCE6thisnthatroadrunnern@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:

> I'm sure we have far more broadband infrastructure than all 
> three of those countries combined.

So, are you saying that the US has more people than it can handle? By 
that logic, we should have shortages of everything. Funny that we used 
to lead the world in quality and quantity of telephone service *per 
capita*. 

Now, to justify our miserably inferior broadband availability (and on a 
per-capita basis, it IS worse than most third-world countries), you 
compare our infrastructure on an absolute basis with some of the poorest 
nations on earth. 

> If 'your' country was smaller than West Virginia (Croatia) it 
> shouldn't be hard to have nearly everything covered by 
> broadband. Hell, I deployed a wireless network that covered 
> nearly half the state of Iowa in 6 months (1/2 = 23,138 sq. 
> miles).

So what's up with the rest of the country? What's our problem?

-- 
John Higdon
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Subject: Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
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