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The point is, though, that the infrastructure provider is required to make the SAME charges to other companies as they do to themselves. Thus, BT Wholesale is not allowed to charge any more for, say, a 1GB broadband "pipe" to another ISP than they charge BT Broadband for it. |
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Cable is available to some, but generally only to people in larger towns (it's not available where I live). |
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I personally stick with the free terrestrial broadcast TV (ie through an aerial on the roof) which, since the switch to digital transmissions a few years ago, gets me around 50 or so channels. There's a very big and extremely successful satellite TV operator in the UK, called "Sky", which is a subscription service. Very good for films and sport.
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That only works for people who do have access to unmetered broadband. The problem that this thread is discussing are the people who don't have that access, and unlike in Great Britain, it's a much higher number than .01% in the US that couldn't get high speed internet access (other than satellite, which I don't even really consider to count as "high speed") no matter how much they want to pay. There are quite a few towns in New England that don't have access to High Speed Internet or Cable television, and New England is a pretty highly-populated area. It's even worse in other parts of the country. These are the areas where the mayors and town councils want to bring in their own wires and provide the internet access, but the other providers are trying to pass a law to make this illegal.
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Well said! It's kind of like publicly funding Libraries to promote universal literacy. I guess you could call it "universal computer literacy", in this case. What may have started out as a luxury good has now become a public utility. Expect to hear screams from the companies losing their old government-granted monopolies! Of course they'll do what they can to suppress their competition, and scream "creeping socialism", since it's publicly-funded. |
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Now that kids must have internet access to do schoolwork, they get added to the groups where it is a right (many of those on govt assistance, I suspect, along with their taxpayer paid cell phones they get now). After all, cable tv is now a basic civil right for those in jail. |
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There's the good probability that a company "providing" education would charge a lot more than even a christian school, and would probably focus on math and science at the cost of the humanities and social scientists. It might even try to find a way to make sure that whatever skills the children learn can only be used working at that company. Instead of vendor lock-in, think employer lock-in. As for taxpayer-paid cell phones, not a chance. The kids I see at work all have iPhones or something running Android. |
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teacher's lounge or union rally? If so that's probably why I never heard it. If the "company's" business is providing an education and the parents are paying (or using their voucher) at the school that they select, based on their own criteria, what are you afraid of? You are aware that "Charter School" companies receive less per pupil (and have better test results) than the public/union/government schools receive per pupil? [See the latest version of John Stossel's "Stupid In America" (the Fox version not the ABC 20/20 version] The Fox version spends more time on this topic. I would also certainly expect that there would be schools offering a more practical curriculum that would "focus on math and science at the cost of the humanities and social scientists", and that many would choose those, over an education that provided little or nothing to support a technological work environment. The problem with having the government do it, is that they (at least here in the USA) don't allow competition, and they have and use plenty of tools to prevent any. (There are also politicians that can be persuaded to use those tools to prevent or restrict any competition that a connected/favored company may face, which is what this "Bill to ban muni broadband" sounds like.) Luck; Ken |
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