Until internet is treated as a utility, and not an all you can eat buffet, no money should be spent at a federal level. I personally never understood the sense of entitlement that dictates every home should have access to any service no matter where the homeowner chooses to put it.
I understand townships, etc, but individual homes, no. On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 12:39 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't completely agree with that. It could reasonably be argued that > satellite companies could provide rural broadband more cost effectively > than almost anyone else. They are, in fact, building infrastructure to > cover the entire planet, which happens to also cover rural America. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 12/16/2020 10:30 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > > .....the original point was about SpaceX though. I don't think satellite > companies should get rural broadband funding. They didn't build any rural > infrastructure. It's not as though they have designated "rural" satellites > that they launched for that purpose. Hughes uses their funding to > subsidize CPE installation costs, and I assume SpaceX will do the same. > > > On 12/16/2020 1:28 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > > I do understand that position. Until a year or two ago I called myself a > Libertarian (that's a whole other story). > > There are places that would never have phone or electric without > government intervention. The choice was made 90 years ago to develop those > areas. If we're not going to continue that with internet access then > logically we should take away the rural phone and electric too. Let the > free market not serve them or charge them the true cost of serving them. > Facing brutal choices like that swayed me away from pure Libertarianism. > It didn't help that the other Libertarians tended to be lunatics (but > again, that's another story). > > > On 12/16/2020 1:01 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: > > I'm a big fan of letting the market take care of it. If there is a > demand, then a WISP will likely meet it. If not, either deal with it or > move somewhere that has service. Maybe that is another argument entirely, > but I think we're searching for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:34 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it better to fund Frontier FTTH and risk them being evil, incompetent >> Frontier or better to leave rural WV unserved? It's easy to sit back in >> our comfy chairs and say Frontier doesn't deserve that money, but then what >> do we do after not giving it to them? >> On 12/16/2020 12:24 PM, Jason McKemie wrote: >> >> It should probably be a requirement that you aren't under bankruptcy >> protection if you're going to be getting public money. Plus Frontier is >> just generally incompetent, hence the bankruptcy. >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:58 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I saw the senator's complaint. I can't speak to Frontier's competency, >>> but Frontier threw their hat in the ring to voluntarily serve unprofitable >>> areas with government assistance. I'm betting the senator's complaint is >>> moot because nobody else wants that job. >>> >>> >>> On 12/15/2020 12:50 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >>> >>> I forget who was complaining that SpaceX was getting RDOF money to serve >>> areas like universities and airports, but FreePress is complaining about >>> the same thing. >>> >>> >>> >>> Keep in mind this is FreePress, which likes criticizing Internet policy >>> a lot. Also winners still have to submit their long forms. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/insights-opinions/broadband-boondoggle-ajit-pais-886m-gift-elon-musk >>> >>> >>> >>> I also saw that a WV senator was objecting money to Frontier which she >>> said was not competent to deliver gigabit service in her state. >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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