I 100% agree with cg0def (845906)
I live in a county of 37,238, the biggest town has a pop of 10,866
There is 1 telephone company, 1 cable company , 2 WISP company. And these companys are raking these people over the coals. It costs 29.95 for 256k and 49.95 for 1.5. for DSL from phone company.And 49.95 for 256k and 1024K for $239.95 for wireless. And the reason that they charge these prices is because "THEY CAN". I think the government should treat the internet like the highway system and install fiber to EVERYONES home and have ANYONE that wants to provide internet access to people to have access to that fiber. EVERYONE needs to think about the future. I remeber when I was connecting to the WWW @ 900 baud and 14.4 modems were $250. Now there are some cities that have 3 to 4 megs D/Ls. Asia is much faster of course. But there will be NO end to the speeds that will be required in the future and I dont believe that the companies will be able to keep up or they wont because it aint PROFITABLE.
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I 100% agree with cg0def (845906) I live in a county of 37,238, the biggest town has a pop of 10,866 There is 1 telephone company, 1 cable company , 2 WISP company. And these companys are raking these people over the coals. It costs 29.95 for 256k and 49.95 for 1.5. for DSL from phone company.And 49.95 for 256k and 1024K for $239.95 for wireless. And the reason that they charge these prices is because "THEY CAN". I think the government should treat the internet like the highway system and install fiber to EVERYONES home and have ANYONE that wants to provide internet access to people to have access to that fiber. EVERYONE needs to think about the future. I remeber when I was connecting to the WWW @ 900 baud and 14.4 modems were $250. Now there are some cities that have 3 to 4 megs D/Ls. Asia is much faster of course. But there will be NO end to the speeds that will be required in the future and I dont believe that the companies will be able to keep up or they wont because it aint PROFITABLE.