> >>> Yes, I find it quite "amusing" that I am paying additional fees on > >>> all of my telecommunications services to subsidize high speed PON > >>> networks in rural bumf*ck while I can't get anything like it in San > >>> Jose, California. > >> That's OK, you're all in the same boat - the subsidized users can't > >> get it either. :) > > So where are these "subsidies" going? > > what a silly question. lining the telcos' pockets. american so called > 'broadband' is a joke and a scam.
Yup. I'm always shocked by how naive people are; the telcos did a fantastic job on this front. So few people realize what's actually happened. http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm This is one of the clearest summaries of how we've been taken for hundreds of billions of dollars by telecom companies that promised to provide the "Information Superhighway"; while it has some clear bias, it is probably the best summarization of how this all went down, and who, why, and how. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
