Posted on 05/06/2014 8:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I remember 15 years ago or so, the liberals were whining and crying because there was too much investment in supply and that there was too much dark fiber. My reply was that there wasn’t enough investment in services to use the dark fiber.
As one of the civil engineers on the internet superhighway, I can tell you that the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to chose from. The real problem is in how the Telcos and ISPs cost model their business.
Telcos and ISPs have approached the internet from the phone business model where there is a connection and the end user can connect to anywhere else. So that is how they sell access. Comcast will charge you for different levels of internet speed. This model presupposes that all internet traffic is the same and has the same characteristics. However, that is not the case.
I am of the opinion that the first Telco / ISP that figures out how to sell tiers of service to the general public, will make a killing.
is somebodies email not getting delivered?
send it twice.
Same happened to me with my AT&T connection.
Watching a movie on Netflix that kept stalling and
restarting. I gave up!
Can you expand on that a little? What did Overland Park do to jerk Google around?
And you can't see it without a sarcasm tag?
Then fight that BEFORE giving the monopolies ever MORE power. You have this fight completely backwards.
It seems that after negotiations with Google, Google was ready to move ahead with installing Fiber in OP, but at the last minute the OP City Council decided to delay the vote, telling Google, "we'll get back to you." Google was not amused.
Mark
Idiots.
Two adjacent suburban cities here are getting it. I figure we’ll be in the first round of expansions beyond those.
But without internet monopolies what can the media base it’s calls for more internet regulation on?
Gee, think of the media’s profits...
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