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Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:12:02 -0500 (CDT)
Yes, I find it quite "amusing" that I am paying additional fees on all of my telecommunications services to subsidize high speed PON networks in rural bumf*ck while I can't get anything like it in San Jose, California.That's OK, you're all in the same boat - the subsidized users can't get it either. :)So where are these "subsidies" going?what a silly question. lining the telcos' pockets. american so called 'broadband' is a joke and a scam.
Yup. I'm always shocked by how naive people are; the telcos did a fantastic job on this front. So few people realize what's actually happened. http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm This is one of the clearest summaries of how we've been taken for hundreds of billions of dollars by telecom companies that promised to provide the "Information Superhighway"; while it has some clear bias, it is probably the best summarization of how this all went down, and who, why, and how. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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- RE: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc Frank Bulk (Mar 24)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Joe Greco (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Michael Painter (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Matthew Palmer (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc Paul Graydon (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc Owen DeLong (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc Michael Painter (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Marcel Plug (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 23)
- Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al) Joseph Snyder (Mar 24)
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