[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Bill Vinson]

Unfortunately for the people of NC, neither do our communications providers.
We're vastly behind other areas in this country, much less the world. I have
discounted internet-only from TWC & it is barely good enough for the price I
pay. The upstream bandwidth is particularly frustrating. I haven't seen my
speeds improve that much while I know that others have MUCH faster/better
service. Ultimately, I've been satisfied by the quality of service outside
of the speed itself, I would like to see REAL competition in all corners of
this state & I don't care whether it comes from public or private sources.
The communication companies much be led to improve their service as it's not
happening now...

Bill

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com>wrote:

> On 3/15/2011 12:02 PM, Bill Farrow wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Chris Merrill
> > <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> >> Think about the big infrastructures you mentioned - roads, water, gas,
> electric.
> >> They are mature technologies whose requirements have not changed
> substantially
> >> for decades (centuries in some cases).  Put in a water line and you can
> safely
> >> assume it won't need to be upgraded for 50-100 years.
> >
> > Not quite right: the roads are constantly being resurfaced, rebuilt,
> > and expanded. Electricity distribution has gone through many upgrades
> > over the years, from substation upgrades to street transformers, and
> > even now smart grid tech is being rolled out to the endpoints.
>
> I did not say these utilities do not need maintenance.  The road outside my
> neighborhood has been there at least 35 years.  If they had run the latest
> and greatest communications technology along that road, it would have been
> obsolete many years ago.  It would would have required full-blown
> replacement,
> not scheduled maintenance.  The same could easily happen with fiber.
>
> My point here is that we are still in the midst of technological innovation
> in this area.  Government doesn't do innovation particularly well.
>
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