When you have a fairly large country in size with a ton of providers offering different types of services at different prices it's harder to achieve a goal like "Broadband for Everyone"
I have to disagree with you in this matter. I probably come from a different background (mideuropean country), but I always had the impression that a high rivalry for market creates a great opportunity for the customer. Think what could you do in a country that has the monopoly for all telecommunications...
I'm and international studentand a worker at yet another Community College, and I'm happy to say that with a group of friends we were able to migrate a whole subnet from Windoze to Gentoo:] currently running on 18 boxes + the Server with massmerge making administration as easy as possible. Since it happens to be a single classrom, and the IT staff in here is somewhat resistant to the open-source enlightment (to say the least), the battle's far from over but we're not giving up!
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I have to disagree with you in this matter. I probably come from a different background (mideuropean country), but I always had the impression that a high rivalry for market creates a great opportunity for the customer. Think what could you do in a country that has the monopoly for all telecommunications...
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