On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Fred Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
So, do you think it will take similar action to get broadband out to everyone? Did the early telephone service providers similarly want to only serve areas where they could maximize profits, thereby causing government to mandate service for everyone? My guess is probably so. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
