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I think it's ridiculous you want massive subsidies for luxury speeds while living in the middle of nowhere.

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  Look at how conservatives would howl if there wasn't a universal mandate for electric power everywhere. I mean, if we weren't entitled to energy from coal we'd have to put up solar panels. Had we really been thinking straight about the "information superhighway" in 1994 we would have just decided it was a function of the electric company and strung an optic fiber along with the power lines and it would have been "least cost". People writing about the future in the 1970s expected we would go straight to fiber without detours into CATV, DSL, spotty, expensive and low-performing wireless systems, etc.
  • mickdeek86 4y ago
    Why did we take the scenic route?