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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 10:20 AM EST |
I also wondered about how accurate that article is, beyond the error I pointed
out. Regardless, in some parts of Europe, government monopoly of
telecommunications is a reality, with the resulting poor service to consumers.
In Canada, we generally had a monopoly granted to a company for the telephone
network, in a manner similar to the U.S.. It's only been in the past 20 years
or so that we've had competition in that area. Now, we have several companies
to choose from, though in most areas there's still just two companies providing
the "last mile". While I can understand concerns about governments
getting into the business, I also see there's a real problem where carriers try
to block municipal governments from providing access in areas where the carriers
refuse to service. Perhaps this should be a case of "put up or shut
up" when the carriers don't want to service an area. If they don't want to
service an area, they should have no right to block the municipality from doing
so.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 11:41 AM EST |
I have seen this claim before, but I doubt the accuracy of it.
I have no doubt that they would love to dump the copper infrastructure in
unprofitable rural areas but I see no indication of them trying to dump the
existing infrastructure in high density areas where it is profitable to
opperate.
Especially AT&T whose Uverse 'Cable TV' and broadband internet service runs
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| Authored by: mbouckaert on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 01:05 PM EST |
I fail to see what part of Europe. Maybe there's a
community high in the mountains where they only have ISDN.
I had ISDN over there in the early '80s (and could shop
online at that time).
What I gather is that all family members I have polled are
on fiber - some in cities, some in suburbs, some rural.
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So maybe: compared to the *rate of improvement in the last
10 years*, Europe is not getting the same performance
improvement *rate*. Maybe because they started much higher?
European cars are not getting the same mileage improvement
as US cars! They only doubled (from 20MPG to 40) while US
tripled (from 12 to 36)!
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OBTW - I am in CA and I cannot get cable or DSL - AT&T
refuses to install and ComCast wants to charge $20K for
about 100ft. of wire.
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| Authored by: designerfx on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 01:54 PM EST |
the study that says 1 house in a zip code = availability.
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