Re:Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor peop...
by tracker1 on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:15PM
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While I mostly agree. Most wireless carriers do underserve huge areas of the country. My vacation times are mostly spent on cross country road trips for the past decade. About 2 years ago, I switched to Verizon specifically because it had the best rural coverage. Huge areas of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Minnesota etc have no coverage by any other carrier. Where my mom lives in WY, there is some spotty ATT coverage and meh VZ coverage. Definitely nothing to write home about.
I also tend to mostly use tethering for my laptop in these areas, and can say, it's been a crap-shoot for the most part.
I also feel that this spending probably shouldn't target any metro area with more than say even half a million people in it. Simply because that is generally enough to create actual market pressure where local solutions are likely to be better and Federal funding will likely only help incumbents anyway.
I'm not against a budget cap, that's part of what a "budget" is. I think this is partially mis-sold, but in a lot of ways, I have almost no trust in current FCC leadership.
I also tend to mostly use tethering for my laptop in these areas, and can say, it's been a crap-shoot for the most part.
I also feel that this spending probably shouldn't target any metro area with more than say even half a million people in it. Simply because that is generally enough to create actual market pressure where local solutions are likely to be better and Federal funding will likely only help incumbents anyway.
I'm not against a budget cap, that's part of what a "budget" is. I think this is partially mis-sold, but in a lot of ways, I have almost no trust in current FCC leadership.