🚀 go-pugleaf

Rod Speed wrote
> 
> Liberals are vermin wrote
> > zeez <blinkingblyth...@gmail.com> wrote
> >> Lil Abner <@Daisey.Mae> wrote
> 
> >>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1352559/Canadians-forc...
> 
> >> I've always wondered why Canadians have it about as bad
> >> as Austraiia when it comes to net access. Australia is phy$icaly
> >> isolated so it somewhat understandable for them but Canada?
> 
> > Because the companies given huge sums by liberal (and democrat in the U.S.) governments
> 
> You've got that backwards, the Libs are the Repugs in the US, cretin.
> 
> > for infrastructure improvements pocketed the cash,> did almost zero improvements
> 
> That is a pig ignorant like with the NextG network alone.
> 
> > and as a result, we fell from number #1 in the early 1990s
> 
> Pigs arse we ever were.
> 
> > to around #15 in-terms of internet infrastructure and cost.
> 
> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you dont
> actually have a fucking clue about the most basic stats.
> 
> And Labor is planning to piss $50B against the wall themselves, anyway
> when most already have a very decent net service and dont need that. 

Canada and Australia are similar in that they have a small population spread over a 
great expanse.   It's a situation where the taxpayer should play an integral role.   
Canada has ended up with monopolies for good reason.  It was left to the stake 
holders to create the infrastructure to the tune of $billions, and the government 
did not underwrite the loans nor did it provide subsidies.

Unfortunatley, though doing it that way saved the taxpayer an fortune, it did not 
open the doors to competition due to how the stake holders paid for it in a small 
market where there simply wasn't a population big enough to invite competition to 
create multiple competitors with their own infrastructres.

And though I know it doesn't sound good.  In a situation like that, the only way to 
encourage competition is to make it like electricity.   It should be metered so 
that those who use a lot, pay for a lot.  And those who don't use a lot, pay less.

Or, the government should be involved and create an infrastructure that will allow 
smaller competitors to be in the game, without relying on the monopoly.