SouthernLinc continuing iDEN despite Sprint iDEN shutdown

[bigsnake49]

This is what is happening in rural Washington State counties, they have better internet options and speeds than less rural city/town dwellers.

 

http://www.gcpud.org.../available.html - Grant County, WA

They say "Grant PUD is deploying broadband network to the people of Grant County. Once complete, all county residents will have access to a high speed Internet connection."

ISP options for the PUD service, http://www.gcpud.org...rk/connect.html

 

They can very well put fiber on all the power poles everywhere in this country. The lectric utilities should have done it a long time ago.

[WiWavelength]

The question is where you draw the line. In rural areas, do you run fiber to everyone's home?

 

Yes. Any building that is on the electrical grid gets fiber. Fiber to "every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse." The project would costs tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. But if we would just stop the war mongering, the needless spreading of "Americanism," we could easily pay for the deployment of fiber as public works. And the investment would be good for decades, would pay for itself many times over in enhanced productivity.

 

(Now, extra credit for anyone who recognizes the source of my movie quote.)

 

AJ

[Rawvega]

I believe that's Tommy Lee Jones as Sam Gerard in The Fugitive.

[WiWavelength]

I believe that's Tommy Lee Jones as Sam Gerard in The Fugitive.

 

Ding, ding, ding. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

 

AJ