I side with the incumbent on this issue. When you pay billions to lay the infrastructure then why should you share your hard work. It is one thing where in Uganda the government paid to run all the telephone wire, and the government runs the telecom company. That is not the case here.
As far as broadband in the US i completely agree. The US should not be outside the top 10 when it comes to broadband penetration. I don't blame Comcast for the situation we are in. Internet service has been treated as a secondary service to phone and tv for so long. IE you get a better deal if you bundle all three together. Now that the internet and net enabled entertainment is slowly replacing TV as a main form of entertainment is people's homes other companies are starting to notice. Verizon is spending money build a fiber network and the former Bell companies are follow suit. But I also feel that it is unfair to compare the US to other countries are far as broadband except for other large countries like Russia, China, Canada and Brazil. From the list you can see that the US has more subscribers than the next 3 countries combined. It is great undertaking to wire a country of this size every time a new technology comes out. Where as Japan, S korea UK can rewire themselves in a weekend (just a joke to illustrate the point), it would take more than a weekend.
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