With all the resources of the federal government, are you telling me we can't find someone who is competent enough to plug up these leaks. It's official then, the government hires tools that will follow the union, government, political line instead of competent individuals. Another reason to get rid of government unions so we can start firing these idiots and hire competent people who care more about their country instead of their job.
The new rules are guaranteed to make sure White Space never gets developed. It's more of the Cellular companies and Google running the government for their own profit and screwing the moron voters. White Space only allows a 4MHz channel which means it's literally useless. In some cities, there is only 1 channel available. Then there is the fact that White Space manufacturers have spent years trying to get to market with BS rules and the government just goes out and changes them again. This ruling means the White Space manufacturers have to go back and reengineer their products. Tom Wheeler is a tool of big business and this proves it. The big carriers want as much spectrum as the an get below 1GHz and they don't want competition.
Let's get some reality into this argument since the cause and effect is totally bogus.
1) The reason many companies don't upgrade their infrastructure is the cost of laying new cable is totally ridiculous. The cost of pulling the cable is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem that adds thousands to tens of thousands per customer is the onerous regulations each city has. Many of those regulations are in place to prevent competitors from coming into an area. It's also why Google has cancelled most of their fiber installations.
2) Other technologies such as wireless over unlicensed frequencies instead of licensed frequencies are demonstrating speeds up to 250Mbps today and working on even faster speeds tomorrow, up to 5Gbs. This costs about $200-$250 per household, just pennies compared to fiber or copper. Unfortuntately, the FCC, at the urging of Senators, Congressmen, and the cellular industry, keep auctioning off the frequencies that would allow smaller operators to compete against them.
The answer isn't having government run anything. They are rife with corruption, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has never worked with any government agencies.
If it's a Fox News reporter, Holder tears the guys life apart and even runs phone taps on his mother and threatens Fox News. In the case of a reporter for the New York Times, he publicly says it's okay. The difference being he already tore apart the NYT times reporter's life. Holder should be in jail for violating the privacy rights of both reporters and attempting to intimidate the press from monitoring and reporting the corruption of Holder and Obama.
We damage our economy further, they promise nothing. They steal our tech, shove it in our face, and we do nothing. Obama is a joke, the Democrats incompetent, and we as a country are idiots for leaving these people in power.
You are preaching to the choir. Obama is simply a coward and doesn't have the courage or competence to make a decision. If you don't fawn over him. he doesn't know how to handle it.
Wow, love the insults. Nice job. I can always tell a liberal then the insults have more substance than the content or when their lips are moving, you take your pick.
Unfortunately, your definition of liberal no longer applies to the real world but please keep holding on to that. Liberals are about free speech, unless it disagrees with them. And your definition of Conservative in Great Britain died with Maggie Thatcher. Unfortunately, she was the last one with any gonads who have led your country.
Your view on Israel is simply a denial of the maniacal radical fundamentalist terrorists that exist only to kill the Jewish race. Israel has every right to contain this disease and exterminate as necessary. Since Iran is funding these psychos, Israel has every right to do whatever they need to since nobody else will, including President Idiot Obama.
What part of my explanation are you not going to twist with lies. I know exactly what a Socialist is and the failures of every single one of them. If you think insulting me makes you look better, I really don't care. You clearly have no moral or ethical foundation to stand on based on your positions. I know the Democratic party in the United States would gladly accept you if you decide to come here.
Michael Savage is a talk show host. Lumping him in with terrorist is ridiculous and only served the liberal wing who doesn't want to hear opposing views. So tell my why a Conservative speaker should be banned for any reason other than liberal censorship. That was when you crossed a line that you can't go back from. Israel is pretty much the best ally the U.S. has at this point although Obama and the Democrats have instituted more Socialism now than Canada and the U.K..
Great, UK, one of great U.S. allies is following the Australia and Chinese models of censoring what the government doesn't like. We should send the IRS and Obama handles, err, Democratic operatives, over there to teach them how to violate the citizens freedom of speech rights in a more subtle manner.
We need to make a huge statement and start putting people in jail. China has more intelligence resources here than we do. Start by kicking students, scientists, and diplomats out of the country.
Most of their patents probably originated here anyway. They were most likely stolen off U.S. computers from the thousands of companies that they hacked into. I wouldn't issue a Chinese patent in the U.S. until I did a background check on what company they stole it from. I'm also wondering how much longer we are going to put up with this crap.
The basic problem is the cost per square mile was too high. To get anywhere near 100% indoor coverage required 40 AP's per sqare mile. With AP's costing $1500-$11000 and engineers starting out saying that only 16 AP's per square mile, companies got into it, found out service sucked, then added more AP"s. By the time they got it right, they were out of money at $100-$200K per square mile. There just wasn't enough market to support a multimillion capital expenditure. The trick is to do some actual RF engineering instead of listening to manufacturers and network engineers who had a 4 hour class and were now RF experts, as to how many AP's were really needed. Then do a real business model and quiti giving it away for free (Metrofi was the dumbest idea out there, free Wifi in exchange for reading ads which kept competitors out). With new AP's costing as little as $100 and 802.11N specifications, it's time for WiFi to come back.
There is nothing wrong with the concept of municipal Wifi. It even has the potential to succeed if people with the most basic concept of business sense and municipalities with employees that understand the concept of efficiency and profit and loss would actually work together. The first problem with Municipal Wifi was both the fault of government and Metrofi. Whoever came up with the idea of "free" Wifi or limited "free" Wifi should have been slapped immediately. nothing is free. Revenue needs to come from somewhere. We got out of the market when these financial brainiacs put this concept out. Every city wanted free. Now what they have is a bunch of companies out of business and a bad name. I don't see Qwest, Cox, Comcast, or any one of the other broadband companies being asked to give free service over wires. What I can't believe is that investors actually believed the financial fairy tale models that thought free anything or advertising revenue would pay for all this. PT Barnum was right. We just need to couch it in technical mumbo jumbo.
The reality is that there are business models that make this a success. Efficiency improvements, better security options, and more capabilities easily cover a large percentage of the costs from a government side. From a private sector side, the old adage of "If you build it,they will come" stupdity didn't work for the fiber industry 20 years ago. However, I believe that there is a solution that I'm putting to the test. Only time will tell if I'm right.
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With all the resources of the federal government, are you telling me we can't find someone who is competent enough to plug up these leaks. It's official then, the government hires tools that will follow the union, government, political line instead of competent individuals. Another reason to get rid of government unions so we can start firing these idiots and hire competent people who care more about their country instead of their job.
The new rules are guaranteed to make sure White Space never gets developed. It's more of the Cellular companies and Google running the government for their own profit and screwing the moron voters. White Space only allows a 4MHz channel which means it's literally useless. In some cities, there is only 1 channel available. Then there is the fact that White Space manufacturers have spent years trying to get to market with BS rules and the government just goes out and changes them again. This ruling means the White Space manufacturers have to go back and reengineer their products. Tom Wheeler is a tool of big business and this proves it. The big carriers want as much spectrum as the an get below 1GHz and they don't want competition.
Let's get some reality into this argument since the cause and effect is totally bogus. 1) The reason many companies don't upgrade their infrastructure is the cost of laying new cable is totally ridiculous. The cost of pulling the cable is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem that adds thousands to tens of thousands per customer is the onerous regulations each city has. Many of those regulations are in place to prevent competitors from coming into an area. It's also why Google has cancelled most of their fiber installations. 2) Other technologies such as wireless over unlicensed frequencies instead of licensed frequencies are demonstrating speeds up to 250Mbps today and working on even faster speeds tomorrow, up to 5Gbs. This costs about $200-$250 per household, just pennies compared to fiber or copper. Unfortuntately, the FCC, at the urging of Senators, Congressmen, and the cellular industry, keep auctioning off the frequencies that would allow smaller operators to compete against them. The answer isn't having government run anything. They are rife with corruption, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has never worked with any government agencies.
Gee, the Chinese government is a pack of corrupt, lying bureaucrats. Who knew?
If it's a Fox News reporter, Holder tears the guys life apart and even runs phone taps on his mother and threatens Fox News. In the case of a reporter for the New York Times, he publicly says it's okay. The difference being he already tore apart the NYT times reporter's life. Holder should be in jail for violating the privacy rights of both reporters and attempting to intimidate the press from monitoring and reporting the corruption of Holder and Obama.
Have you even read the agreement? It's bad and useless, no matter your political affiliation.
We damage our economy further, they promise nothing. They steal our tech, shove it in our face, and we do nothing. Obama is a joke, the Democrats incompetent, and we as a country are idiots for leaving these people in power.
You are preaching to the choir. Obama is simply a coward and doesn't have the courage or competence to make a decision. If you don't fawn over him. he doesn't know how to handle it.
So if one guy uses a gun in a crime, we should limit all gun owners? This smells of big business crushing the little guy.
Wow, love the insults. Nice job. I can always tell a liberal then the insults have more substance than the content or when their lips are moving, you take your pick. Unfortunately, your definition of liberal no longer applies to the real world but please keep holding on to that. Liberals are about free speech, unless it disagrees with them. And your definition of Conservative in Great Britain died with Maggie Thatcher. Unfortunately, she was the last one with any gonads who have led your country. Your view on Israel is simply a denial of the maniacal radical fundamentalist terrorists that exist only to kill the Jewish race. Israel has every right to contain this disease and exterminate as necessary. Since Iran is funding these psychos, Israel has every right to do whatever they need to since nobody else will, including President Idiot Obama. What part of my explanation are you not going to twist with lies. I know exactly what a Socialist is and the failures of every single one of them. If you think insulting me makes you look better, I really don't care. You clearly have no moral or ethical foundation to stand on based on your positions. I know the Democratic party in the United States would gladly accept you if you decide to come here.
Michael Savage is a talk show host. Lumping him in with terrorist is ridiculous and only served the liberal wing who doesn't want to hear opposing views. So tell my why a Conservative speaker should be banned for any reason other than liberal censorship. That was when you crossed a line that you can't go back from. Israel is pretty much the best ally the U.S. has at this point although Obama and the Democrats have instituted more Socialism now than Canada and the U.K..
Great, UK, one of great U.S. allies is following the Australia and Chinese models of censoring what the government doesn't like. We should send the IRS and Obama handles, err, Democratic operatives, over there to teach them how to violate the citizens freedom of speech rights in a more subtle manner.
We need to make a huge statement and start putting people in jail. China has more intelligence resources here than we do. Start by kicking students, scientists, and diplomats out of the country.
Most of their patents probably originated here anyway. They were most likely stolen off U.S. computers from the thousands of companies that they hacked into. I wouldn't issue a Chinese patent in the U.S. until I did a background check on what company they stole it from. I'm also wondering how much longer we are going to put up with this crap.
The basic problem is the cost per square mile was too high. To get anywhere near 100% indoor coverage required 40 AP's per sqare mile. With AP's costing $1500-$11000 and engineers starting out saying that only 16 AP's per square mile, companies got into it, found out service sucked, then added more AP"s. By the time they got it right, they were out of money at $100-$200K per square mile. There just wasn't enough market to support a multimillion capital expenditure. The trick is to do some actual RF engineering instead of listening to manufacturers and network engineers who had a 4 hour class and were now RF experts, as to how many AP's were really needed. Then do a real business model and quiti giving it away for free (Metrofi was the dumbest idea out there, free Wifi in exchange for reading ads which kept competitors out). With new AP's costing as little as $100 and 802.11N specifications, it's time for WiFi to come back.
There is nothing wrong with the concept of municipal Wifi. It even has the potential to succeed if people with the most basic concept of business sense and municipalities with employees that understand the concept of efficiency and profit and loss would actually work together. The first problem with Municipal Wifi was both the fault of government and Metrofi. Whoever came up with the idea of "free" Wifi or limited "free" Wifi should have been slapped immediately. nothing is free. Revenue needs to come from somewhere. We got out of the market when these financial brainiacs put this concept out. Every city wanted free. Now what they have is a bunch of companies out of business and a bad name. I don't see Qwest, Cox, Comcast, or any one of the other broadband companies being asked to give free service over wires. What I can't believe is that investors actually believed the financial fairy tale models that thought free anything or advertising revenue would pay for all this. PT Barnum was right. We just need to couch it in technical mumbo jumbo. The reality is that there are business models that make this a success. Efficiency improvements, better security options, and more capabilities easily cover a large percentage of the costs from a government side. From a private sector side, the old adage of "If you build it,they will come" stupdity didn't work for the fiber industry 20 years ago. However, I believe that there is a solution that I'm putting to the test. Only time will tell if I'm right.