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Re:3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai sa... by thebean11 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:22AM (#25859755)
Opportunity cost is only an argument when doing one thing prevents you from doing the other. What's the limited resource here that would prevent a cable company from hiring more technicians and laying more cable?

Put another way, how does banning improvements in New York suddenly make improvements in Montana more profitable?

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Re:3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai sa... by inetknght on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:26PM (#25862988)
Sure but what are you going to do with those technicians after they've installed the hardware in a sparse region? It takes a lot of man-hours to do the install, especially for long distances that are rural homes, but not so many man-hours to maintain
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