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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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