[SATLUG] RoadRunner Rubbish

[Justizin]

On 11/2/06, Travis H. <travis at nexus.subspacefield.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:44:08PM -0500, Luis Garza wrote:
> > They were talking about after the breakup of Ma Bell, the baby Bells asked
> > for a monoply in their coverage area and a tax break in return for
> > providing a fast infrastructure for the internet.  Basically they took the
> > tax breaks and pocketed the money and failed to provide the fiber
> > infrastructure.
>
> I've heard that T/W was giving them incentives to slow down deployment
> of DSL and fiber.

Also worth noting that Thierry says the prices in France are largely a
supply / demand thing.  They need customers, noone in the US is
*really* looking to convince people that having internet access is a
good idea, they are looking to steal each other's customers.

It is worth noting that some years ago there was publicity about a
rich fellow who plans to fund the deployment of fiber up to the
outside of every house in the states.  In the 80s, he postulated that
noone would ever really be able to deploy cable TV without just paying
for it and waiting for it to pay off, which has happened probably 100
times over now.  So, I have some faith that we may see this happen
again.

I think, basically, he's like:

  "I want fiber at my house, but what's the point of using BitTorrent
if you don't have fiber at your house, too?"

;)

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Justizin, Independent Interactivity Architect
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