Long term, the result of the government proving any kind of service and destroying the free-enterprise or a competitive market
1) R&D reduced or eliminated. Nobody making a profit, nobody investing in R&D 2) Corruption or excessive cost increases. Unions step in, cronyism, government pensions, etc... All those costs get added in eventually. 3) Costs never get reduced or innovation is never applied to reduce costs or improve quality. 4) Eventually the taxpayer gets stuck with the bill The IRS confiscated a house of ill-repute in Nevada. They still lost money. If you can't make money running the Mustang Ranch, you are either incompetent, corrupt, or an idiot. And these are the people you want to trust to run your fiber? -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ammon City fiber It kind of depends on what the majority of people in the entire country thinks ought to be standard levels of infrastructure. If you live in the country, which things are you willing to not have just because there aren't as many people to distribute the cost for? Certainly street lights aren't expected in rural areas (and they're probably not wanted anyway). Is a hospital within a reasonable distance one of those things? What's reasonable? Electricity. Should everyone have it with a reasonable cost? The people that came before us decided that electricity was a basic service that everyone should have. Same with phone service. We are now debating this same thing with regard to internet service, and further whether it should or should not be provided over fiber. I sit firmly on the fence on that last one. I can see arguments going both ways. The one thing that's clear is that providing basic internet service to rural areas can be a lot more expensive than in urban areas. Fiber-based internet service is maybe another level of expensive. And we've all seen what happens when trying to level the playing field is done the wrong way. Hopefully we are smart enough to learn from past mistakes. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 10/29/2016 1:58 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: > Because I have run the numbers myself and performed the market > research. The average person in my community is unwilling to pay > enough to recoup the investment in an acceptable time-frame. That > being the case, why is it someone else's responsibility to pay for > what our community is unwilling to pay? I want a Bugatti but I don't > think you should get me one.
