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["Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com>]

I love that argument: US broadband adoption rates trails that of Japan and Korea.

Duh.

Outside plant is a totally different animal in Japan and Korea as it is in the United States.  They are both much smaller geographics areas with, especially in the case of South Korea, highly concentrated populations in small pockets of an already small country.

Apples and oranges.

On 6/21/07, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote AT earthlink.net> wrote:

zman wrote:
> We've already paid for it, both for cable and telcom. Tax breaks,
> subsidies, and free right-of-way. If they are to compete for real then
> they should pay. If a town or city would like to improve their
> infrastructure they should be allowed.

Way, way true Dude:

http://www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/5011

We have all of us been robbed (again).

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Scott C.
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