On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Eric S. Sande <[email protected]> wrote:
> You want private telecom to deliver universal broadband in the US, > you are going to have to pay for it. > My main complaint in this area is that there seems to be little money spent to refresh technology. The hardest part about Gigabit to the home is really getting fiber to the home. For Verizon to complain about how hard it will be to update their infrastructure to handle the increased traffic is a big load of cr*p. There is no reason for telecoms not to have kept up with technology at fairly low costs over time. We saw how the telecoms were complaining how much it costs to provide consumers with *the advertised bandwidth* (we thought they would only use 1% of it, so we could clearly pretend to offer a lot, sniff!). As so many have mentioned, if they put some of the profit to keep the infrastructure upgraded as technology improved, they would have higher profit today. But the executives who depend on stock price would have seen a tiny decrease in their compensation, maybe, so it didn't get done. Sad commentary. So now it is "Boo hoo, we don't have multi-terabit optical switches anywhere, and it would cost us money to upgrade all at once just for consumers to get more bandwidth. Boo hoo, give us more money." -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
