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I would be very, very upset if I were forced to pay 750 USD for a fiber connection that didn't even benefit rural households.
by evanlivingston 9y ago
I would be very, very upset if I were forced to pay 750 USD for a fiber connection that didn't even benefit rural households.
- gizmo686 9y agoThat's how government works. Most government programs don't directly benefit every individual citizen; even though they all get funded from the big pot of 'government spending', which is filled by taxes. If you think there is a systematic problem, where a disproportionate amount of money goes to urban centers, and a disproportionate amount of money comes from rural areas, then you have something to complain about; but you shouldn't complain about a single project just because it does not benefit 100% of the population.
- jcims 9y agoEh, if it cost $1250 per household to light up every home in the country, you can bet metro folks would be carping about how much they are paying to cover the much higher per-household costs of rural users.
- zappo2938 9y agoThe most Republican Libertarian TV station on cable is Rural Free Delivery TV named after the United States connecting farmers with free rural delivery. They now hide the history of where the name came from.
- indemnity 9y agoInfrastructure costs money, who knew. $750 for installation to the premise is really, really cheap.
- kiwidrew 9y agoBut the infrastructure (underground ducts, fibre junction boxes, and the GPON fibre) will last for decades, so it's a very reasonable investment to be making.
- Spooky23 9y agoThat’s nothing. You probably pay 10x that for highway capital costs. The benefit of an investment like that is incredible.