richardpor
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| The Best Brodband Policy------- BUT OUT!
The idea falling behind in broadband is BS because it does not account for total US internet use including dial-up. Yes, good parts of internet users are happy with dial up.
Also any form of centralize government planned broadband policy will eventually stunt broadband growth by forcing a one size fits all solution which will drive out innovation. Is one going to tell me that a bureaucrat in Washington DC can tell me what is best for me in Oregon? At lest a dynamic unplanned broadband policy allows for many different solutions for me to consumer to chose from be it no broadband, DSL cable or eventually fiber. |
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GOLFnSUN
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| Re: The Best Brodband Policy------- BUTT OUT!
I found this part of the story interesting and a good reason to have the Feds butt out, as you say, dictating a broadband policy:
Expansion of broadband could lead to economic development, Rockefeller said.
"This has everything to do with creating more good jobs in West Virginia," he said. "Businesses are going to require that an area have broadband access."
Broadband, which allows more information to be transferred at higher speeds, is available to 85 percent of homes in the U.S., according to the Consumer Advocate Division of the state Public Service Commission. That falls to 75 percent in West Virginia.
Although the final 25 percent will be difficult, it is not impossible to expand broadband service there, Rockefeller said. So, Rockefeller wants federal dollars spent in WV so that jobs can be transferred from some other state. Basically he is arguing for spending money so that WV will be more attractive to companies. Where are these companies coming from? Overseas? - Very unlikely. Much more likely, it is so that companies will come to WV from other states. Now that is a very good broadband policy for the elected Senator from WV. It could help get him reelected. But as a national policy, it is just spending money to move companies and jobs from where broadband is economical to deploy to an area where, even Rockefeller, admits it would be difficult to do so. And that is a very bad NATIONAL policy.
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Michieru2
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Zoder
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Miami, FL | reply to GOLFnSUN
You act like that strategy is unique to broadband. States and counties try to attract companies all the time with things such as tax incentives with the hope that it will bring jobs to the area. |
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GOLFnSUN
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| said by Zoder  :You act like that strategy is unique to broadband. States and counties try to attract companies all the time with things such as tax incentives with the hope that it will bring jobs to the area. Sure it is standard policy. But it is poor NATIONAL policy because there is a net loss for the country moving jobs from one area to another.
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