Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by rayiner on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:50PM (#19108935)

But the government has to build the hardware. And that costs money, and a massive amount of evidence shows that the government will underinvest in that hardware.

When I travel to Japan or Germany, it makes me cry to come back to American public roads and trains. But not privatized American broadband. We’re doing something wrong and that isn’t giving government insufficient involvement in the construction of infrastructure.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by raxxorrax on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:22AM (#19113222)

In Germany we had a state owned train infrastructure for the longest time and the process of privatization isn't completed yet. The problem with a privatization is that unprofitable regional areas are not going to get any investments and will get basically excluded.

While there were some improvements, customers in general do not get better condition today. I think overall using a train got more expensive. To a degree that you should think about using a plane.

Infrastructure investments were low before and are low right now.

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