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To: TimF who wrote (35411)	9/3/2010 2:04:40 AM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

"Or has the private sector been underperforming?" "Relative to the public sector? No" --- 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?" --- New Hampshire Residents Resort to Lawn Signs to Beg Time Warner Cable for Broadband Service stopthecap.com "Customers Accuse Verizon of “Optimizing” Down DSL Speeds to Reduce Expensive Upgrades, Service Calls" stopthecap.com The Case of AT&T's Incredible Shrinking Broadband Tiers gigaom.com Ontario County, NY: We Need Fiber So Badly, We Just Did It Ourselves "Ontario County, just south and east of Rochester, N.Y., is unleashing the power of fiber optics after private providers turned their noses up at the rapidly-growing Finger Lakes region." stopthecap.com New Hampshire Residents Resort to Lawn Signs to Beg Time Warner Cable for Broadband Service stopthecap.com Broadband: Verizon DSL Slow Speed Issue forums.cnet.com 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." businessinsider.com Next Time You Think Americans Don’t Want Faster, Better Broadband… Read This stopthecap.com --- 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 stopthecap.com The rest of your evasive reply needs no response. Most will see it for what it is: ideological cheerleading, factually and logically inadequate. Jim

To: TimF who wrote (35411)	9/3/2010 1:42:24 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Tim, Jim... I've been following this debate with interest, abstaining from commenting mainly because I see merit in both of your assertions. However, there are some inequalities being compared. For example: "As for 'the big lie', if the peace was a bunch of lies, or simply false without being dishonest, the best way to address that is to counter its arguments." I would point out that in these regards Jim did, in fact, counter the essential arguments being made by Heritage, but it's difficult if not impossible to refute, never mind quantify, comments that are couched in innuendo, as evidenced in the original reference article, without resorting to same. It's always healthy to see an exchange of this type here, though. Thanks. As a late aside, I just read Charles Brown's latest post related to a different topic entirely (citizen-based wireless emergency response networks), which includes an interesting quote at the end that I thought might be apropos of one of the points of contention in this discussion. From #msg-26797364: "Indeed, for many people, the very first question they want answered even before 'what the heck are you doing' is 'for whose interests do you work?' For many people, it may also be the last question they need answered." FAC ------