Comments on: National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/ Internet Bandwidth Development: Composting the Internet for over Two Decades Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1 By: Chris LaCroix https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:14:17 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-27 Starbucks. It’s just Starbucks man! Cash For Clunckers? How about Cash for Clouds so we didn’t need cars to go more than 40 miles! What ever happened to telecom being a utility? Were’s the shovel ready job? I’ll dig a trench to lay fiber before filling in a pothole. Duh. Time to throw the bums out.

]]> By: Chris LaCroix https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:12:52 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-26 How is Al Gore going to sell books and movies if you have bandwidth in the Silicon Valley and can stay home and work?
That would be almost like allowing carbon recycling legal through bio diesel production in California. That’s just crazy talk!
Bob, you can use my coal powered electric chainsaw.

]]> By: Chris LaCroix https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:50:50 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-25 I have no sympathy for you rich Saratoga folks, living in your mansions on the hill. Us pit dwellers, here in Morgan Hill have plenty of bandwith. I guess you’ll just have to get in your Saab, and drive to Starbucks to hangout with the other folks and their touchscreen Macbooks:) Save the tree, drink more coffee.

]]> By: Robert J Berger https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:22:06 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-24 I tried to get Etheric Wireless this week as my expensive and limited 3G wireless became even more flakey. The folks at Etheric were very nice and I found out that I could potentially get a straight 9 mile link to their facility right on top of a major Fiber Internet node. But then when they did the site survey we found that a single tree was blocking the line of site.

I am looking into trimming the tree but it again shows that wireless is not a viable solution to fill in for lack of Fiber, DSL and Cable deployment. I know that my neighbors have even tougher line of site issues with many of them having no line of site to the valley at all.

]]> By: johnny https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:47:14 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-23 yQRVvW Thanks for good post

]]> By: Don Means https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:20:03 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-22 You make a strong case, Rob. At a minimum every local community owes itself a formal published strategy for the buildout of its telecom infrastructure.

By what ever business model using whatever technologies in the service of whatever local policy priorities, every community needs to grasp its responsibility as distinct, unique & quantifiable market and they will either plan or be planned.

For starters and a little extra motivation, multiply the # of households in any community however big or small, times $200/mo as a rough average cost for all telecom stuff(cable, internet, phones, satellite). Then consider what kind of infrastructure that amount could (should!) build. A small town of 3000 households is spending about $600,000/mo. for connectivity. For that you could get fiber to a poodle!

]]> By: Sandy Young https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:31:37 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-21 I live 30 miles outside the 9th largest city in the United States, and the fastest connection I can get is 26 k on my dialup and that is due to the age and antiquity of the lines. I could get satellite, but the least expensive is over $100 a month. The last time my phones (and internet) were out due to a storm, not a violent one, but one that wet the lines after a dry spell, which was enough, it was out for 6 days. When I called the phone company, I told them it felt like I lived in a Third World Nation. Sounds as if in many of those I would have better internet! Excellent piece! Thank you.

]]> By: Mark https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:41:15 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-20 I don’t really care how I get higher speed DSL and I suspect most people don’t, I just want to be able to get it. I live in Cupertino the home of Apple computer and all I can get is the 1.5M down and the 256K uplink. I am willing to pay for the higher speed i.e. I like the ATT price and hope it is a money making price or I will never get this service. In Houston they have higher speed DSL why can’t Cupertino, Saratoga, and Mountain View get faster DSL speeds.

]]> By: dave clark https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:44:14 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-19 Bob – where is your sense of patriotism? The US is no longer number one in anything except for deficit budgets – why complicate matters?

Communications implies that businesses are doing commerce, which I guess is ok on the surface – but over-rated. The scary thing is that it also allows people to share ideas and engage in critical thinking… that leads to dissent which leads to socialism which leads to communism where they take away all of the toys from the rich guys. Are you ready to pay the price for that?

I’d say – roll with the punches… and let the banking industry control communications as well. Maximize profits for shareholders, increase the income disparity between the uber elite and average (worker bees) US citizens. If possible we should diminish electronic communications to the point where fear takes over rational thinking – where no one really knows what is going on. Get it?

Imagine – just imagine – those punk youtubers (not to be confused with ewe tubers – which is what sheep eat) having to watch sonic youth over a 2400 baud uucp connection running on surplus barbed wire from the USSR.

so there – harumph.

]]> By: Esme Vos https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:52:32 +0000 http://blog2.ibd.com/?p=80#comment-18 Robert,

Two cities – Ponca City, OK and Rock Hill, SC – that own their fiber and all mounting rights to light poles (because they are also their community’s utility company) can do all of the incredible things with this community-owned infrastructure: they deployed a muni wireless network for efficient energy management, wireless automated meter reading, public safety, free WiFi in public parks so parents at softball league games can upload photos and video to photo-sharing sites. Stuff like that they can do because they don’t have to ask AT&T’s or Verizon’s permission (unlike on some other states). They don’t have to buy these services from the incumbents at outrageous prices.

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