On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:23 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Lewis Bergman wrote: > > I rail against these types of projects not because they typically fail, > which they do, > That's the second time you make that claim. Could you please back this > up with some sources? > Do you mind enlightening us with all the tales of success and glory?
> > Could you also shine some light on those federal bailout programs you > say are paying for all the failures? > RUS is federal and has taken the hit for a number of projects, not sure on Fiber and I wasn't just referring to fiber. Maybe you are but I wasn't being that narrow. > > > Let the free market system take care of everything else. > How about them that the free market does not serve? > Who cares? Really...who cares. They chose to live somewhere without internet. You want internet, move somewhere with it. Your job isn't there? OK, guess you get to use internet when you visit the kids in the big city. So you don't have internet. Who gives a damn? I am pretty sure oxygen still flows without it and nobody is going to die. > > You make a coherent argument about municipalities focusing on core > services, but it does not address them that are left out in the cold. > > Seriously, I don't care. And to be really honest, it seems like a large part of the customer base in the areas I evaluated were wholly disinterested in fiber. I could not believe it myself but they had little interest. Then as I explained it would actually cost a few dollars more to get faster service over fiber than the $30 they paid now they couldn't express their disinterest fast enough or drone on long enough about how it was already way more costly than it was worth. Maybe some areas have huge swaths of urban blight or suburban hinterlands that have fast computers and Roku that desperately need internet. If it is needed so badly, pay for it. If the demand was so evident some hungry carrier would come in and install it. Since we are on the subject of core services, you should look into how many of these same areas are not actually covered by those same cores services. I know thee were a number of properties when I was mayor that we de-annexed because we could not provide the services required in the allotted two years. It is quite common for cities to fail to provide such services but less so that they let their citizens opt out of paying the taxes. But thanks so much for your compliment on my coherency. I was beginning to lose sleep over your low opinion of my mental faculties. > Jared >
