Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread b_s-wilk
Plus, when broadband-neglected communities try to "roll their own" broadband [example: Lafayette, LA, http://lafayetteprofiber.com], the Telcos fight it tooth and nail, secretly funding "no socialism" campaigns (much like the health insurance industry is now doing nationally.) All the more eviden

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: > Plus, when broadband-neglected communities try to "roll their own" broadband > [example: Lafayette, LA, http://lafayetteprofiber.com], the Telcos fight it > tooth and nail, secretly funding "no socialism" campaigns (much like the > health insuran

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread b_s-wilk
Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7 billion. Are we being overcharged? Of course we are being overcharged. I am sure that you already know that. To wit, we pay, on average, five times what users in the Netherlands pay, and our broadband bills are typica

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-19 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:34 AM, mike wrote: > Vacation?  The mind boggles. Yeah, well, in relation to the subject of paying too much for internet connectivity, I was only providing a clear cut example of just how much these big corporations are able to have their way with both our government a

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread mike
Vacation? The mind boggles. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > > > Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on > $4.7 > > billion. Are we being overcharged? > > Of course we are being overch

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread Eric S. Sande
Wow I did! It ain't exactly news. http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/03/30/fairpoint_verizon_deal_comes_to_a_close_on_monday/ No comment, I'm just sayin'. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote: In case you missed this: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/13/Verizon-Frontier-agree- to-86B-sale/UPI-64691242244299/ Wow I did! "Approximately 11,000 Verizon employees will switch to working for Frontier, Verizon said." Verizon is

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7 > billion. Are we being overcharged? Of course we are being overcharged. I am sure that you already know that. To wit, we pay, on average, five times what users in the

Re: [CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread Eric S. Sande
In case you missed this: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/05/13/Verizon-Frontier-agree-to-86B-sale/UPI-64691242244299/ No comment. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy

[CGUYS] Flush With Cash and Fearing Rules, Major Carriers Tell Rural America to Get Lost

2009-08-18 Thread TPiwowar
Looks like rural America will get to keep its guns and religion, but it ain't gonna get no DSL. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/ AR2009081302433.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter "The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high- spe