The Future of American Broadband

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]pokabur[/nom]First off healthcare is not a right nor will it ever be a right. You cannot just magically say that healthcare is a right because people need it. [/citation]


Oh ok, So I guess me being able to breathe this air isn't a right. Guess I'm gonna make a company and hire a army to make people pay to be able to breathe.

Seriously you free market retards need to gtfo out politics. You idiots are one of the reasons the USA is falling behind big time. You think those countries with the better internet, by far I should add too, have the free market to think for that?

Actually wait, you probably do.

 

[nenito]

I live in Puerto Rico, and as a US territory we are drastically behind. My cable broadband connection is currently 3 mb/s download, and 0.7 mb/s upload and for a staggering $60. Granted they do offer higher speeds but the prices are just insanely high. I wonder, will these plans help us out on the island or not? 🙁

 

[RazberyBandit]

200 million out of 300 million American's is not at all a low number. Countries that rank ahead percentage-wise like the UK and Korea are much smaller in actual size than the US. And the vast majority of Canada's residents are concentrated around major cities. These kinds of figures baffle me because, as Einstein might choose to point out, it's all relative.

Yes there are places in the US where broadband is unavailable or extremely limited. Those are very rural areas. Exclude such places and then recalculate the US numbers. I believe we'd be on par or better than the UK and Canada.

While I'm all for equal access to broadband for all, I'm not entirely sure our taxes should go towards giving groups of farmers in the middle of Wyoming (just an example) each their own DSL CO or cable node while the infrastructure of some major cities are in need of an overhaul.

Big deal some schools don't have wireless connectivity. If they're wired, they're fine. Let the local government sort that out, not federal. That's why we pay local taxes.

 

[Guest]

@touchdowntexas13

Why have computers in public schools at all, students don't NEED them. They can use typewriters to compose their tiny bit of research papers.

Come to think of it, why should we have wireless internet at all? Let's just go back to the pre-internet era and sit in front of giant cathode ray tubes for hours on end, after all... OUR generation grew up that way and it didn't affect us in the slightest...

Perhaps you should go read Plato's allegory of the cave, that is, IF you can grasp what it offers to those who can "get it", otherwise enjoy your shadow puppets.