Turns out that 66% by area and 17% by telephone customers of NM is covered by coops and small companies. And they're utterly dependent on the FCC Universal Service Fund to provide these services at affordable prices. And the most recent changes to USF tilted the rules to favor the big telecom companies.
-- rec -- On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/22/14, 12:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> But _they're_ not providing the jobs and the taxes, the location is >> providing the jobs and the taxes, all _they're_ providing is their monopoly >> of control over the location. >> > I don't know how prevalent it is in the Southwest, but in rural Oregon > there have been telephone cooperatives since there have been telephones. > They've survived to this day, and provide excellent service, now for > internet too. My grandmother has IPTV out on her farm. At some point > people need to stop confusing the things that are beyond their reach > because of lack of capital from things actually being hard to do. > > > Marcus > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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