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NinjaKido on 26 January 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
akuma587 said:
The richest country in the world can't invest anything in its broadband infrastructure? Isn't this a financial investment as well since broadband internet is good for business?

Just because the government isn't cutting taxes doesn't mean that it isn't doing things that are helpful for business.

It's simply not cost effective at this point over an area as large as the United States that isn't as densely populated as other countries.

Combine that with the fact that our cable companies are already dragging their heels on technology in the first place and it becomes an even larger problem.

We don't need to be paying millions of dollars to build poor infrastructure in far off places with maybe 10,000 people.  It's not feasible today and re-laying better infrastructure in those places will still be unfeasible in the foreseeable future.  The government needs to fund research to look into better technologies for those areas that are easier and more cost efficient to deploy IMO.

If we don't have the current tools to solve a problem correctly then we shouldn't waste money trying to solve it using the current tools, we should invest in better tools.

But who's to say that these tools will ever be availible?  or if they do become availible how do we know they'll be more cost effective than the one's we have availible right now ?. Delaying infastructure in the hope that you might find a better way to create it in the future is a gamble and considering how neccasery/useful the internet is to the average developed country individual it could be considered to big a risk to continue waiting..I think people deprived of proper internet access is a poverty or sorts.