02-06-2009, 09:04 PM
Swampy is right on one thing, "Hughes Net (private enterprise) will gladly set you up. You'll pay for it, but that's the great American way."
And they will take exorbitant fees each month for extremely poor/limited service. At least that is my experience...
I'd rather see the government invest in the infrastructure and then lease it to the providers. That is providers plural.
Our current system generally has one owner of the cabling who is also in the business of selling access and reluctant to lease bandwidth to independent ISPs who might be their competitors. Remember a few years ago when there were many DSL providers to choose from? Now the number of independents have dwindled since the telecoms gave the independents (and thus the independents' customers) bad service. Aren't most areas pretty much limited to telecoms, cable TV providers, and satellite these days?
I've heard that some of the European countries have government owned infrastructure leased to multiple competing ISPs in each market area which brings down the price and raises the level of service for everyone.
=wr=
And they will take exorbitant fees each month for extremely poor/limited service. At least that is my experience...
I'd rather see the government invest in the infrastructure and then lease it to the providers. That is providers plural.
Our current system generally has one owner of the cabling who is also in the business of selling access and reluctant to lease bandwidth to independent ISPs who might be their competitors. Remember a few years ago when there were many DSL providers to choose from? Now the number of independents have dwindled since the telecoms gave the independents (and thus the independents' customers) bad service. Aren't most areas pretty much limited to telecoms, cable TV providers, and satellite these days?
I've heard that some of the European countries have government owned infrastructure leased to multiple competing ISPs in each market area which brings down the price and raises the level of service for everyone.
=wr=