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Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to make it easier for the private sector to locate broadband infrastructure on federal land and buildings, part of a push to expand high-speed internet in rural America. Reuters reports: "We need to get rural America more connected. We need it for our tractors, we need it for our schools, we need it for our home-based businesses," a White House official told reporters ahead of Trump's speech at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We're not moving mountains but we're certainly getting started," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to preview Trump's actions. The White House described the moves as an incremental step to help spur private development while the administration figures out what it can do to help with funding, something that could become part of Trump's plan to invest in infrastructure. "We know that funding is really the key thing to actually changing rural broadband," a second White House official said. Reuters cites a 2016 report from the Federal Communications Commission, noting that 39 percent of rural Americans lack access to high-speed internet service.
Nope, they just changed it to 25/3 up from 4/1 during the Obama administration.
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I thought the FCC was in the process of relaxing the definition of broadband so the established players could pretend they were doing more than they are?
The 'right to repair' movement is using tractors as an example of manufacturers being evil - restricting the rights of people who have purchased tangible devices to repair them.
If they're not already full of computers (much like a car is these days), they soon will be. With wireless diagnostics and controls. And with that will come the 'option' for firmware updates, which will then become mandatory with a periodic phone-home requirement or they'll shut down the tractors.
So yes, tractors have managed without Internet (at all!) until fairly recently... but the people making the tractors don't want that to continue any longer than they can help.
It's talked about here...the 10/1 is a proposed standard for "mobile broadband".
Page 6, paragraph 14:Should we maintain the 25 Mbps download, 3 Mbps upload (25 Mbps/3 Mbps) speed benchmark, and to apply it to all forms of fixed broadband? and in the footnotes: The 25 Mbps/3 Mbps speed benchmark was established in the 2015 Report and maintained in the 2016 Report. Inquiry Concerning the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely Fashion, and Possible Steps to Accelerate Such Deployment Pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as Amended by the Broadband Data Improvement Act, GN Docket No. 14-126, 2015 Broadband Progress Report and Notice of Inquiry on Immediate Action to Accelerate Deployment, 30 FCC Rcd 1375, 1403 -08, paras. 45 -55 (2015) (2015 Report ); 2016 Report , 31 FCC Rcd at 722, paras. 51 -52.
Page 7, paragraph 18: The Commission has not previously set a mobile speed benchmark...We seek comment on whether a mobile speed benchmark of 10 Mbps/1 Mbps is appropriate for mobile broadband services.
IMHO, 10/1 is probably "good enough" for "mobile broadband", but only as long as that isn't your ONLY choice. Most people aren't hotspoting multiple devices off a single cell phone.
$400 billion to be more precise:
https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
I was more curious about this:
up from 4/1 during the Obama administration.
There are definitely democrats/leftists that hate the idea that people can move out of the big cities, taking their tax revenue with them. I've talked with them. They don't consider it "fair" that people can move to suburbs and not support the inner city schools anymore.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Obama didn't do this, Bush didn't do it, Clinton didn't do it.
Clinton -- repeal of Glass-Steagall act (a gold mine for wall street)
Get real dude
Indeed, get real.
The repeal of Glass-Steagall was accomplished by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA) authored by three hard right Republicans. it passed both Houses of Congress with veto proof majorities (Senate 90–8, House 362–57). Although it got majority support among Democrats, support was nearly unanimous from Republicans.
Clinton could have vetoed it, but it would have done no good, the veto would have been over-ridden.
Assigning blame to Clinton for repealing Glass-Steagall is torturing the facts beyond all recognition.
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Clinton could have vetoed it, but it would have done no good, the veto would have been over-ridden.
Clinton could have vetoed it if he didn't support repeal. Removing his support from the bill and forcing proponents to override his veto may have eroded enough Democrat support to sustain his veto. Your theories deny the history and basic politics.
Instead, Clinton supported repeal of Glass-Steagal, signed it into law, and continues to defend repeal to this day. Please read the following quote that obliterates your fantasy.
Bill Clinton:
On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into.
Republicans forced nothing on Clinton. He signed the law of his own free will.
Assigning blame to Clinton for repealing Glass-Steagall is torturing the facts beyond all recognition.
You wouldn't recognize a fact if it tortured you. Project much?