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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 09:29 AM EST |
Scott Cleland is Chairman of NetCompetition a pro-competition
e-forum supported by broadband interests and President of Precursor LLC, a
research consultancy for Fortune 500 companies.
This reeks
of the garbage spouted by monopolists like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and
friends. If the article were correct there would NOT be laws in many states
that impose undue burdens on communities that want to build their own
networks. Keep in mind that AT&T and Verizon are trying to abandon some
of (maybe even all of) their wireline (copper and fiber) last-mile networks
which could result in Comcast, Time Warner, etc. gouging all the
more.
CONTRASTING
VIEWPOINT (Community Broadband Networks
blog)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 12:50 PM EST |
Just look at the services available in the EU at costs which make my American
friends dream and weep for lost opportunities. I'm in the UK, on cable and pay
the equivalent for $26 monthly for 20mb broadband, all UK phone calls (land and
mobile)and too many TV channels to watch (over 100) and I haven't counted the
radio relays. The only gripe I've got is that I have to have some rubbish
channels that I'll never watch to get some that I do want. There are cheaper
deals but they're not cable and can't match it for speed and reliability.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 02:07 PM EST |
Apology for the adhominem and politics.Founded in 2010 by Tucker
Carlson, a 20-year
veteran journalist, and Neil Patel, former chief policy
advisor to Vice President Cheney, The Daily Caller is a
24-hour news
publication providing its audience with original reporting, in-depth
investigations, thought-
provoking commentary and breaking news. In less than
three years, The Daily Caller readership has grown to
more than 8 million
unique visitors per month and draws more than 35 million monthly pageviews.
[Footnote
link in article]
Tucker Swanson McNear
Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political news
correspondent and
libertarian conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel. He is co-founder
and
editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller [1] and formerly co-hosted CNN's
Crossfire and MSNBC's Tucker.
[Wikipedia]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 06:48 PM EST |
| Only someone who never visited Europe could describe Europe as centrally-led by
soviet-style bureaucrats.
That aside, many European countries are way ahead of
the USA in terms of average connection speed (USA ranking 33rd or so, just
behind Canada, way behind most of Europe, source http://www.netindex.com/do
wnload/allcountries/) and percentage of the population that has internet. In
Sweden even remote areas have, or are getting, fiber.
One thing that might have
some truth to it is that the USA is very busy rolling out 4G. Not in the least
because until recently, they still relied on EDGE (for example for the 1st gen
iPhone), whereas EDGE was already end-of-life in the Netherlands. It is on the
verge of being rolled out here, already been rolled out elsewhere in the EU.
So
maybe the USA is modernising its infrastructure at a greater speed than Europe,
but it was so backwards that even upgrading to mediocre technology is a great
step forward.
Oh and cable for both Internet, phone and TV is present here (.nl)
as well, as is copper, as is FTTH (present in some parts, being rolled out in
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