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kudos:5 | Study developed by NTCA with Hudson Institute This is just the NTCA(National Telecommunications Cooperative Association), that represents a large group of rural telcos, looking to keep that USF funded money coming their way, but in larger amounts.
NTCA - The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier association representing more than 580 locally owned and controlled telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural and small-town America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory and industry representation; meetings; publications; educational programs; and an array of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org.
Their press release about the study and their big meeting to get more money:
»www.frs.org/images/documents/10-···dson.pdf
»www.frs.org/about-frs/press-center
In other words, the NTCA paid Hudson & Kuttner to craft this study in their favor.
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join:2002-07-10
Strafford, MO | said by Linklist:This is just the NTCA(National Telecommunications Cooperative Association), that represents a large group of rural telcos, looking to keep that USF funded money coming their way, but in larger amounts.
NTCA - The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier association representing more than 580 locally owned and controlled telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural and small-town America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory and industry representation; meetings; publications; educational programs; and an array of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org.
Their press release about the study and their big meeting to get more money:
»www.frs.org/images/documents/10-···dson.pdf
»www.frs.org/about-frs/press-center
In other words, the NTCA paid Hudson & Kuttner to craft this study in their favor.
Maybe it is, and maybe it's not, OK it probably is.
That does not mean that the findings should be invalidated. Where I currently live, our options are dialup, fixed wireless, or satellite.
We currently pay $50/month for fixed wireless at 1mb/1mb (not guaranteed in the least), or there's another company offering fixed wireless for: 1mb/~128kb=$100, 2mb/~256kb=$200, 3mb/~384kb=$300.
I spoke to our current provider to see if they offer anything faster, and they don't. The good thing is that it is fairly reliable, it rarely goes down.
So we have OK options, but they're either somewhat slow, or pretty cost prohibitive.
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Rule #62: Don't take yourself so damn seriously! | |
| If you live in a rural area and are waiting for broadband, ask yourself: do you already have electricity? Because without it, all the fiber, LTE, laptops and smartphones in the world won't do you any good.
So let's assume you live in a rural area and your DO have electricity. Now think about that for a moment: did your electric company hold you hostage while it waited for federal subsidies to provide you power? Answer: no it didn't.
So why do we let rural telcos soak us for subsidies that rural electrics didn't need? | | |
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| The electric company got a monopoly in exchange for serving the rural users. | |
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