I suspect that socialist countries simply "decide" (legislate) that the government will provide the infrastructure and the government goes ahead and does it. Tax rates are a whole lot higher in most other countries.
In the U.S. it was legislated that "everyone gets a phone" "at a reasonable rate." The phone company that does business in a geographic area must provide/offer phone service to "everyone" in that geographical area at a "reasonable" (price controlled) rate. We haven't yet done that with Internet access. Fred Holmes At 06:15 PM 2/17/2010, tjpa wrote: >On Feb 17, 2010, at 4:36 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: >>Are we lagging because certain principles of capitalism must be >>strictly adhered to? Are we victims of our own system when our >>standing amongst the nations that are the best at broadband delivery >>keeps slipping? How can the United States catch up without some >>public funding and keep the cost affordable? Should government, local >>and/or otherwise, get financially involved? > >We are deeply into corporate capitalism run amok. Company and national >infrastructure gets threadbare as profits are directed into the >pockets of top managers. > >In some European countries there are laws that set the ratio of >highest to lowest paid within a corporation. That might fix it. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
