Re: Costs too much for people to care.

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BF69 join:2004-07-28 Camden, TN	reply to clickie Re: Costs too much for people to care. said by clickie : It's expensive, and I just don't see the price of it dropping much below $50 per month. But if you want to be away from people, it's the price you pay for something other than dial-up. If they're poor, as you stated in your post, then they can't afford broadband in any form. Not true. You can get 1.5 Mbps for Bellsouth for $33 a month almost half of the cost of this crap in which you get half the speed. Just because one can't afford $60 doesn't mean they can't afford $33. Also it's the value thing. twice as much for half the speed isn't good value. Hell I pay $47 a month for 6 Mbps fom BS. Satelite is a rip off PERIOD. Would DirectTV have as many customers if they cahrge $100 a month for the same programming as the local cable guys do for $50? of course not. As far as "They choose to live out in the boonies for they deserve to have crappy ISPs" So kids that live out in the boonies don't desever and education. People that live out in the booies don't deserve electricity and running water or phone service because they CHOOSE to live there? And before you point out those are necessitites and broadband isn't. Well phones used to be considered a LUXURY. And my great grandaprents lived the vast majority of their lives just fine without electricity and running water. And some of them lived into their 90's. So how necessary is it? Hell my son is amazed that until I was 13 I didn't have cable and maybe had only 8 channels to watch and that I was 11 before video game system where available for homes. His whole life there has been an internet the concept of a world without it is foreign to kids his age. So this concept of broadband being a luxury will fade over time and quicker than you think. Plenty of people including myself look at people with dial-up as we would look at Amish people. Totally amazed at how they get by. And you're talking to someone who didn't get on the internet until he was 31. There are already things in school that require kids to have internet access. So kids without it are at an educational disadvantage and that will only get worse over time. So how is something that is REQUIRED by the PUBLIC schools that are funded by TAXPAYER $$$$ considered a LUXURY?
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