[TriLUG] Intel bug in the news today

[John Vaughters via TriLUG]

Trolling??? Hahahaha!!!!

If a discussion on broadband competition started by someone else and my comment does not agree with yours = Trolling????

We all have, uh.... Belly Buttons, yeah Belly Buttons as well as opinions right???

I can get 4-5 decent internet options and these days that includes TV and phone. 

Major options: 

1. Spectrum
2. AT&T
3. Soon Google (2-4 years maybe?)

Minor Options:
1. Verizon Wireless
2. Sprint Wireless
3. Satellite Internet


Just about everyone on this list has at least 3 of these options and a few only 2. If you chose to live where you live, eeeeeeh...... about 99.9% of you did choose, then why is it anyone's fault but yours what service you have? Before Train, Cars, Planes, you pick the technology, not everyone in every location had equal access, NOR should they or do they deserve equal access to services or advantages of said technologies. HOW ON EARTH does anyone believe they should have equal access???

Now for most people let me layout a few cases.

Case #1: 

A young college student getting an Accounting degree wants internet and video services so he can get all those hot dates that accountants are renowned for to his house for some good lovin fun. So being a bean counter, he comes to the solution the the best case scenario is Verizon Wireless Unlimited plan so he can have internet, TV and phone and pay the least for the total services. So he can save his beans to pay for all those hot dates.

Case #2:

IT College Student decides he wants to have a decent website with a good internet connection to allow for many connections to his web server to make some Ad revenue. Since Computer Science folks are smarter than the average bear, he comes to the same solution as his accountant neighbor. A wireless connection only, but to also buy a virtual server with duplicated fast internet connections. 

Case #3:

Rural Area Farmer, Decides he needs access to internet to manage his hedging strategy on his cattle. No Wireless, No cable, only telephone and Satellite. He opts for Satellite knowing he does not need large monthly bandwidth and the overall service is cheaper.

Case #4:

Professionals that live in Raleigh/Durham and neighboring towns who have access to multiple vendors with 100-1000Mb services from 3 High Speed vendors (or will very soon) or 3 Wireless vendors and they decide on which company they feel provides the best service for the money aka best value.  

Case #5:

You live on the out skirts of a large town and you did not do your homework to find out where the planned high speed connections are going to be laid and you you only have 1 High Speed vendor and 1 Wireless vendor. Then you cry because its just not fair that you do not have the same options and end up paying the 1 vendor because the Gov. that you may or may not have voted for regulated policy in your area that only this one vendor had exclusive access and the solution is Federal Regulation to further gum up the works because the exclusive policies have already gummed it up and you are not happy that your municipality has screwed you over so everyone else must get screwed over as well.

Cry me a river!!!

Ok, you got me case #5  was trolling.

Sorry, Competition for Bandwidth is screaming right now, and if you do not realize it, you just are not paying attention.

STOP expecting all locations have equal service. It will never happen. Not every location has access to mass transportation or airports or water or oh geez, pick a topic. 


On Thursday, January 4, 2018, 4:16:57 PM EST, Thomas Delrue <delrue.thomas at gmail.com> wrote: 





On January 4, 2018 3:48:13 PM EST, John Vaughters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>   +1 Nothing Burger Why? Because enough competition already exists and is getting more competitive by the year. Let the markets work and they will return the best most competitive product. If the issue ever gets to a monopoly situation, we already have laws for that problem.As an example,I do not care if they throttle, because I do not have to buy their service, and they will not retain customers if they create bad business.Markets work, keep them free from Gov. intrusion.  

You're trolling, right? 
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Thomas
(Sent from my mobile device, please forgive brevity or typos.)