“If you think that $80 a month for a service with a 30 GB per month cap is “comparable to wireline” then your local wireline service must really, really suck.”
I haven’t looked into it in that detail because I don’t need it. Whether or not it’s competitive with wireline internet service or not is irrelevant. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that sparsely settled rural America should somehow get the same deal as places where a sufficient customer base exists to warrant the installation of a higher capacity system. Next you will be telling me that it doesn’t matter if you live by yourself on a mountain top miles from any significant population center, you should still “be given” cheap internet service. Bet you can’t get water, electricity, natural gas, and a sewer there for the same reasons that you won’t get the internet you thing you are owed.
Hubert Humphrey was a big proponent of giving rural America the same airline services as the big population centers, and charging the big city passengers extra on their tickets to pay for it. Is that what you think we should be doing? As part of this nonsense, there was an “airline” that flew between Ely and Las Vegas, NV. “Scheduled Air Service with a timetable wherein nearly every flight flew empty and we paid for it.
Actually a vast majority of the nations landlines built and installed in homes prior to the AT&T break up were in fact done on a one price service connection policy no matter if the line was one pole length to your home or they had to bury a cable for a mile to your house. That was policy before HHH. Some homes especially in rural areas had a phone but no electricity. But the power company could make you pay for each pole beyond two poles from the powerline.
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My water comes from the ground and my sewage gets treated on-site.
True, my electric is a bit higher and propane is higher cost than natural gas.
Wanna know my property tax bill? ;^)
I have always had electricity and water. No sewer, but my septic system provides totally comparable service at a low operating cost.
Did not get landline internet until three years ago. It's 5mbps and no caps, so I'm okay with it (not enough bandwidth for streaming, but fast enough for overnight torrent session to catch up with what I missed).
My problem there is not with the FCC so much as it is with my @&$@*!@# county government that gave the local cable a company a monopoly which exempted them from having to run service any further than 150' from the road. I've been working on that without success.
My issue with the FCC is anything they do which puts more bandwidth under the control of the current mobile industry cronies rather than opening up more competition and better cheaper service.