"Or has the private sector been underperforming?"
"Relative to the public sector? No"
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Oh, come on! You really don't expect thinking people to accept that sound bite, do you? Public-sector employees have nothing to do with municipal broadband. Municipal broadband is not the public sector. Jurisdictions are replacing underperforming providers. On their own nickel, or with federal government assistance, they're getting better throughput at lower cost than incumbents can provide. That is the truth, and no astroturf post will change it.
The question is: "How well are existing providers serving end-users?"
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The Case of AT&T's Incredible Shrinking Broadband Tiers
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Ontario County, NY: We Need Fiber So Badly, We Just Did It Ourselves
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New Hampshire Residents Resort to Lawn Signs to Beg Time Warner Cable for Broadband Service
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Broadband: Verizon DSL Slow Speed Issue
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The 10 U.S. Counties Stuck In The Dial-Up Dark Ages
"The depressingly large number of Americans without access to broadband are largely where you'd expect them to be: in poor, rural areas. Native American governed lands are especially bad."
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Next Time You Think Americans Don’t Want Faster, Better Broadband… Read This
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If status quo interests can't provide services that end-users know are available at reasonable cost, they'll be replaced. Astroturfing and neolib SI posts supporting corporate deadbeats may delay the inevitable, but it won't save underperforming, incompetent and corrupt monopolists.
Susan Crawford Warns the Tech Community: Protect the Gilded Age of Communications from a Corporate Takeover
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The rest of your evasive reply needs no response. Most will see it for what it is: ideological cheerleading, factually and logically inadequate.
Jim |
