Greetings ( + )!( + )
On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:54 AM, James Fraser wrote:
on 8-21-05 9:33 PM, Peter Schaff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But in Des Moines, where
it is all sprawled out thy have the higher 1.5 DSL. Go figure? But
cable is not an option right now so I am hanging in there and maybe,
just maybe they will upgrade eventually.
The downside of busting up Ma Bell in the 70s/80s?
Um, how so? If extending faster service to a particular
area/residence is
not deemed worthwhile by Qwest, I'm not sure why AT&T would do it.
<shrugs>
Provisioning a home with cable/DSL service costs a company money. If
they
do a cost/benefit analysis and determine they can't make their money
back,
they're not going to provide the service. What would the incentive be?
Businesses are more concerned about bottom line and less about civic
duty these days.
I wish I better understood why people feel that businesses have some
sort of
higher calling than making a profit. I *do* think it's great if a
business
wants to step up and spend money for the Greater Good. I guess I'm
just
uneasy about a business being coerced into doing something simply
because
it's felt that they "ought to." There seems to be a strong sense of
entitlement these days and I don't understand where it suddenly came
from.
If cable/DSL providers were obligated to give service to everyone,
regardless of how much money it cost to provision them, they would be
out of
business in a very short time. Either that, or you and I could look
forward
to paying for other peoples' broadband when we pay our own b-band bill.
It probably come from the fact that there is a Federal Law that
requires that a Telephone Company (if they accept the area that they
have requested from the FCC, must provide service to all that request
service. That's also why telco's that service rural area all qualify
for low cost loans from the REA and grants from the Federal Government.
Of course, we're already doing that right now. Drat.
Best,
James Fraser
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