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Re:Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the F... by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:15PM (#13897582)
It seems like the solution there is to buy out the incumbent. Then you get ~100% uptake instead of 40%, which better than doubles your total revenue and lets you start with the existing network rather than from scratch. You could even bring on some of their technical staff.
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Re:Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the F... by amazon_not on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:28PM (#13897697)
Australia tried that. Total disaster.
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Re:Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the F... by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 17, 2017 @04:44PM (#13897835)
Australia was about to try that but then a different government came in that intentionally sabotaged it to prevent their opponents from getting credit for it succeeding.
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Re:Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the F... by mkj on Friday March 17, 2017 @11:19PM (#13899699)
Well it's still in progress, a bit hard to declare it a disaster yet.
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