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Now I agree that everyone should have access to broadband but this raises many questions for me. Why can't the rich get access to gigabit while the poor has ac
by criley2 12y ago
Now I agree that everyone should have access to broadband but this raises many questions for me.
Why can't the rich get access to gigabit while the poor has access to a few megabit?
Just like ten years ago, when the rich had access to megabit and the poor used kilobit access.
Or ten years before that, when the richest could pay for high kilobit access while the poor were stuck to dialup low kilobit access.
I don't understand what's wrong with a long term rollout plan that finances the future scale with large costs to those willing to pay them.
Is it wrong because it's a utility? Why aren't we up in arms about the non-megabit (or barely megabit) non-low-latency access that so much of rural america is already stuck with?
I just don't get this. Fiber will get cheaper, but only if we train tens thousands about it in smaller rollouts while building up the supply side with increasingly larger rollouts.
- wmf 12y agoWhy can't the rich get access to gigabit while the poor has access to a few megabit? We may want to avoid a scenario where fiber is unregulated, then incumbent ISPs also get deregulated out of fairness (Austin is currently at this step), then incumbent ISPs stop maintaining/installing service in poor areas, so rich people get gigabit and poor people get no bits at all.
- bdisraeli 12y agoWhy can't the rich have express-ways and make the poor drive dirt roads?
- bennyg 12y agoIt's already like this. The rich fly in private jets that take a fraction of the time that driving does.
- MBlume 12y agoIs this supposed to be a reductio?
- jamesbritt 12y agoL.A. has the "Lexus Lane" http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/17/local/la-me-1118-lopez-expresslanes-20121118 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/17/local/la-me-1118-lop...
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- smsm42 12y agoVery small number of people are rich enough to build their own roads (with all rights of way issues, etc.). And each road would only connect very small number of points. Helicopter probably would be way, way cheaper at this point. Paid roads with less traffic, etc. or paid lanes are a commonplace, OTOH, but one doesn't have to be exactly rich to use them.