Net Neutrality and Unlimited Broadband might be upon us!!!!

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nordlead said:

Words Of Wisdom said:
Um... it's not quite as nice as you seem to think. It's providing an incentive for US companies to put 5 year-old garbage infrastructure in remote locations. I mean, it's good for the people who have no better options but I have this feeling that a lot of it will be outdated pretty fast (if it isn't already by the time it's laid).

And there aren't even enough users out in these remote areas to make such a thing profitable. So essentially the government will be throwing money away as the ISP's abandon the lines once any maintance picks up, unless the government is willing to foot the bill again.

 

the gov will foot the bill for the lines to be placed, once lines are placed there will be no reason for ISPs to not keep service as more lines = more money. This is why the gov wants to do this. It creates jobs adding several million broadband users.

It is estimated that each house would cost the gov about $6,250 each for broadband to be made available, this includes all the new cabling, poles, new servers for the ISPs to handle increased load, etc.

Still this would create thousands of jobs which is the point of instating universal broadband.