Exactly, Betty. "Why can't they get together?" We have propensity to deploy, with faux-entrepreneurial ideal, the same multiple-gauge railroads that bedeviled 19th century US commercial activity; that is our model, until it no longer can be driven forward. We have what? 4, or is it 5 wireless systems here? Each requiring its own tortured buildout (see Mr Sande's bill of particulars). Imagine putting all of that investment into one system. Oh, it's not hard, after all: the rest of the world is GSM, to enormous economic benefit to business and consumers, a commercial leg up the rest of the world now has on us. We don't do multiple voltages, we standardise time (except in Indiana), so why dig up our streets for each new fantasy of telcom autonomy? Well, the highway lobby isn't complaining..
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 12:58 AM >> Basically yes. If you want a chicken in every pot. Every local switch >> and tandem switch has to be equipped. Every mile has to be rebuilt. >> >> It might be twice my estimate. > > Or even 6 times as much. After you get done, and the cable companies run > their system, then Google comes in behind all of you to run theirs. > > I don't understand why everybody needs to roll their own fiber. I don't have > three sets of power lines coming to my house. Why can't the "information" > providers get together and run one system that they can all share at a fair > price? *Before* the Feds regulate that you have to. Sure makes a lot of sense. That's the way they do it in some other countries where service is much cheaper than it is here. Both broadband and mobile service networks can be shared by multiple companies. Electric companies already share networks. Why can't they get together? Why can't they share? Because the Feds didn't regulate that they have to, so they don't. Because even though it will be cheaper in the long run, it's more complicated to cooperate than to go it alone. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
