Author Topic: The Greatest Con  (Read 851 times)

Offline Vulcan

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Re: The Greatest Con
« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2006, 07:40:41 PM »
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided the telcos with $200 billion of taxpayer money to wire up your house by 2006. Each of you were promised 45Mbps symmetrical fiber or coax/fiber combination for about $40 per month.

That is $2,000 per household and it's 2006.

So, how is that connection working for you?
 


What has this got to do with Net Neutrality?

And why should private companies not have control over what is routered across their connections? If the infrastructure is public domain net neutrality is fair enough, but if it is private infrastructure what business does a govt have controling it... unless the US is making yet another step towards socialism?

If you think Net Neutrality is a good thing lets see how you feel when P2P apps make playing AH near on impossible.

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« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2006, 08:35:59 PM »
telco's want it all

they are into television now and will not stop until they have your eyes as well as your ears ..
they are in the process of pushing for state wide franchises unlike the present local franchise cable co's have to bid on and then live by which help the local towns, communities, cities. Verizon here doesn't want a city, they want to service the state .. and they have the deep pockets to make it happen.
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Re: Re: The Greatest Con
« Reply #32 on: July 12, 2006, 08:47:37 PM »
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What has this got to do with Net Neutrality?

Nothing. Did you not understand what I wrote?
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And why should private companies not have control over what is routered across their connections? If the infrastructure is public domain net neutrality is fair enough, but if it is private infrastructure what business does a govt have controling it... unless the US is making yet another step towards socialism?

Telcos have always been public utilities, created and regulated since they are handed a guaranteed customer base free of cost and have  significant influence on the infrastructure of a community. They are regulated to prevent them from holding the public hostage.

Your customers are paying to be connected to a global network that is neutral. The internet is public domain that you and your ilk are trying control.
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If you think Net Neutrality is a good thing lets see how you feel when P2P apps make playing AH near on impossible.


What??

Your post looks suspiciously like the type of post made by someone in the internet surveillance industry.

Info: internet surveillance companies are like the old telephone boiler rooms. Some companies are manned by hundreds of people sitting all day in front of a computer who search and post canned responses to BBS, blogs and news comment sites. There are contracted by companies to search and neutralize any negative comments made about the client company or its products by bombarding them with positive canned responses, and by industry groups with an agenda.

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« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2006, 05:54:26 PM »
A year and a half a go they closed out all out Customer Care for McLeodUSA and said they moved it back to Cedar Rapids, IA.  

LIARS!

Come to find out they outsourced it to the Phillipines.

The Company destroyed lives and homes and sent the jobs overseas.

So goes the Fleecing of America....

It's Americans screwing Americans..... frikken Liberals.

Yeah I said Liberals...Clinton Luvin Bastages.  How many more lives will you destroy?

Democrats are destroying this Country.

Time for a "Free America"

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