Re:Democrats fight FCC's plans to redefine “broadband” from ...
by pasbesoin on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:18PM
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To those saying e.g 10 Mbit/second is enough: Do you live with other people?
Get a family on one of those lines, and 10 will not be enough.
And the problem is, even if you think it's a fine solution to ask such cases to pay more for a higher tier of service, in many areas, there is no higher tier of service.
In my area, the phone company's line was too poor quality to support DSL when I moved in, 16 years ago. And I am not in a rural community. I'm in a dense sub-division, in the middle of suburbia.
Forward to 2 years ago, when I had a chance to talk with one of the linemen linemen regularly assigned to my area. AT&T still had not replaced that line. And, as far as I know, still has not.
It's not that a 25+ expectation is "too hard" or "too expensive". It's that many incumbents aren't even trying.
Then again, whenever a municipality wants to move forward and roll its own broadband deployment, then AT&T rolls out their lawyers.
They won't roll the trucks for upgrades. But lawyers, to stop competition? Sure thing.
Get a family on one of those lines, and 10 will not be enough.
And the problem is, even if you think it's a fine solution to ask such cases to pay more for a higher tier of service, in many areas, there is no higher tier of service.
In my area, the phone company's line was too poor quality to support DSL when I moved in, 16 years ago. And I am not in a rural community. I'm in a dense sub-division, in the middle of suburbia.
Forward to 2 years ago, when I had a chance to talk with one of the linemen linemen regularly assigned to my area. AT&T still had not replaced that line. And, as far as I know, still has not.
It's not that a 25+ expectation is "too hard" or "too expensive". It's that many incumbents aren't even trying.
Then again, whenever a municipality wants to move forward and roll its own broadband deployment, then AT&T rolls out their lawyers.
They won't roll the trucks for upgrades. But lawyers, to stop competition? Sure thing.