Re:San Antonio: Google Fiber on Hold
by kuschku on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:20AM
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First, it wasn’t an insult, second, just flagging a discussion down is even worse manners, and third,
I wasn’t questioning the availability of the speed itself (that might be quite good now), but the availability of choice.
And a sentence like "in some areas you can even choose between two options" is a sentence that you’d expect to hear in Soviet Russia. Or in North Korea. Or China. Or East Germany.
Not in the country that used to stand for competition, free market capitalism, and choice: the US.
And going from "'Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,' [Yeltsin] said.", to "some areas are served by two cable providers" is definitely a fall.
I wasn’t questioning the availability of the speed itself (that might be quite good now), but the availability of choice.
And a sentence like "in some areas you can even choose between two options" is a sentence that you’d expect to hear in Soviet Russia. Or in North Korea. Or China. Or East Germany.
Not in the country that used to stand for competition, free market capitalism, and choice: the US.
And going from "'Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,' [Yeltsin] said.", to "some areas are served by two cable providers" is definitely a fall.