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If the state wants Verizon to provide a public service, the state should pay for it then. >That's fine, but this is today, and we're not there yet. But that i
by rhino369 11y ago
If the state wants Verizon to provide a public service, the state should pay for it then.
>That's fine, but this is today, and we're not there yet.
But that is the issue. Maintaining a network like that requires longterm capital investment. Verizon can't rent a network for 10 years. If you expect Verizon to operate a service will be gone in ten years, then they have to depreciate the assets over that period. Which increases the price.
- techsupporter 11y ago> the state should pay for it then. Oftentimes, the state has paid for it. In my home state, Verizon-then-GTE was given tax breaks and cash payments to build a rural broadband system. It has not come anywhere close to completing that task, but now it pleads poverty and dumps the crappy copper infrastructure on Frontier.
- empath75 11y agoI've long thought that states/municipalities should take over the running of last-mile connectivity to customers.