Re: I think too many people are downloading 10g database

"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:91884734.0402171600.319da171_at_posting.google.com...
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> US is pushing it:
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-243879A1.pdf

That's what the telcos here tried to do. And the councils kicked them out because "broadband cable over power lines was visually distressing to the environment".......

> Yeah! Raise taxes and do it!

they don't have to be raised. If it is installed by local government, then it is extremely cheap and the big telcos will for sure pitch in: it saves them a lot of $$$$ in the long run. Win-win situation, I reckon.

> Local councils can be stupid! It's newsworthy when they are not.

Ay! too true... A case for central gov intervention?

> > This way, one doesn't get into a dirty fight with pernickety local
> > council laws and restrictions, while users still get competition in
> > provision of main thoroughfares.
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> You get into persnickity fights with private industry, then.

Not if you let the big telcos "help" the councils install the stuff!

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> You obviously haven't driven on my road. ;-)

:) Yes, that too.....

> People laugh at me, but I still maintain that raising progressive
> taxes to give cheap broadband to everyone is a good thing for a
> government to do.

Well sure, but there has to be a compensation. Otherwise what will happen is just a rise of taxes and no results...

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Nuno Souto
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