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That sounds a lot more appealing to me than the government actually building the thing. With the EM spectrum for instance, the unlicensed 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands
by nulltype 11y ago
That sounds a lot more appealing to me than the government actually building the thing.
With the EM spectrum for instance, the unlicensed 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands have been pretty useful. Google actually tried to get the 700 MHz spectrum (in the 2008 auction) licensed in a way that would probably benefit consumers quite a bit, though I'm not sure how well that worked. It's odd that Google had to do that when it's ostensibly the government's job to ensure good use of this limited natural resource, but I think the idea was good.
- MagicWishMonkey 11y agoWell that is how our existing broadband infrastructure was brought into existence. The big cable companies were given billions in subsidies for expanding their high speed networks. It worked well except for the fact that they were allowed to form monopolies/oligopolies after expanding into new markets.
- nulltype 11y agoYeah, I find it weird that nobody else can use those cable networks, unlike the phone lines, or build their own. Perhaps those subsidies should have included more strings. Or maybe it should be easy to run cables.