I write a fairly popular blog on a niche topic (the events industry) and receive similar requests several times a week. The only difference is that I'm offered a "high quality" article as a guest post, so I don't have the write the post myself?so considerate!
Also found, according to Wikipedia, in Bin Laden?s compound:
?Cheap foam mattresses, central heating, old televisions, a whiteboard, markers, textbooks, dates, nuts, eggs, olive oil, rabbits, 100 chickens, a cow, and medicines?
Death to bedding manufacturers, HVAC contractors, electronics stores, school suppliers, textbook publishers, grocers, farmers, and pharmaceutical companies!
"...those are sparsely populated areas where broadband doesn't do all that much"
Well, if we get it, it will do much for the millions of rural Americans like me who have no broadband access. I read an earlier comment from someone who is complaining about only getting 1.5MB download speeds and laugh. You don't know how lucky you are. Try dial-up sometime, or pay $70+/month for a crappy satellite connection.
I am not optimistic that this program will make much difference to the availability of broadband in rural America, but at least it has its priorities right.
aseg-"My local telecom refuses to put DSL equipment in the box that supplies me and a hundred other customers...
Gunnar-"Well, look at it this way. Instead of 1.5 mbps DSL or 6 mbps cable, your first option will be fiber at ~100mbps. The problem is that most people's options for broadband are barely broadband when compared to the top countries."
But without a national commitment to universal broadband access, I'll never get "my first option," let alone any option. Without a national commitment to universal broadband access, no one is going to run fiber to my home in a rural area with a population density of 1,000 people in 60 square miles.
Why do so many people think of a "National Broadband Plan" as rolling out fiber to people who already have two or more sources of broadband access? I say this as someone who lives on my state's major east-west highway but has only dial-up access, though major telecoms have promised us more for years now.
My local telecom refuses to put DSL equipment in the box that supplies me and a hundred other customers. The U.S. Rural Electrification Administration got everyone electricity and a landline phone. We need to spend our $ FIRST on an equivalent process for at least ONE broadband choice for everyone, BEFORE we give those who ALREADY have broadband even more options.
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I write a fairly popular blog on a niche topic (the events industry) and receive similar requests several times a week. The only difference is that I'm offered a "high quality" article as a guest post, so I don't have the write the post myself?so considerate!
What about the other things found in Bin Laden's compound?
Also found, according to Wikipedia, in Bin Laden?s compound:
Death to bedding manufacturers, HVAC contractors, electronics stores, school suppliers, textbook publishers, grocers, farmers, and pharmaceutical companies!"...those are sparsely populated areas where broadband doesn't do all that much"
Well, if we get it, it will do much for the millions of rural Americans like me who have no broadband access. I read an earlier comment from someone who is complaining about only getting 1.5MB download speeds and laugh. You don't know how lucky you are. Try dial-up sometime, or pay $70+/month for a crappy satellite connection.
I am not optimistic that this program will make much difference to the availability of broadband in rural America, but at least it has its priorities right.
Re:
aseg-"My local telecom refuses to put DSL equipment in the box that supplies me and a hundred other customers...
Gunnar-"Well, look at it this way. Instead of 1.5 mbps DSL or 6 mbps cable, your first option will be fiber at ~100mbps. The problem is that most people's options for broadband are barely broadband when compared to the top countries."
But without a national commitment to universal broadband access, I'll never get "my first option," let alone any option. Without a national commitment to universal broadband access, no one is going to run fiber to my home in a rural area with a population density of 1,000 people in 60 square miles.
Re: Thinking About A National Broadband Plan
Why do so many people think of a "National Broadband Plan" as rolling out fiber to people who already have two or more sources of broadband access? I say this as someone who lives on my state's major east-west highway but has only dial-up access, though major telecoms have promised us more for years now.
My local telecom refuses to put DSL equipment in the box that supplies me and a hundred other customers. The U.S. Rural Electrification Administration got everyone electricity and a landline phone. We need to spend our $ FIRST on an equivalent process for at least ONE broadband choice for everyone, BEFORE we give those who ALREADY have broadband even more options.