"If Roseburg can do it , Portland should have accomplished this too! The only thing affecting this lack of Fiber in PDX is entrenched interests - "
I'll entertain this a bit as I think about it a lot. As I suspect you well know, rarely is anything that simple. Over the years, through a lot of social justice activism and volunteer work I've gotten to know a lot of non-tech, every day, common people. Most of them just want to be able to use the internet when they need to and don't think about things like bandwidth price, security, infrastructure, etc. My point is there's not a real public driver. People are concerned with all sorts of other issues like jobs, money, housing, healthcare, climate change, etc. Necessity is the mother of invention. There are countries who are farther behind the U.S. in industry and economic power that have fiber run all over their land that provides high-speed internet to almost everyone. They didn't have existing infrastructure to deal with and the time was right for them to do it. The state of the internet in PDX frustrates me too but there are a lot of other things happening in Portland and in the greater PNW that I'm much more concerned about. Maybe I'm just an aged out techie turned hippy but I often think that high speed internet & technology does way more damage to humanity, civilization and our shared life support system and doesn't really deliver all the good that it promises and people willing shell out lots of their hard earned cash for. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
