To: Between the Lines
If you think wireless is expensive now wait until its free.
Apologies to P.J. O’Rourke.
2 posted on
05/02/2007 7:27:05 AM PDT by
Patrick1
To: Between the Lines
Florida could become country’s first treeless state.............
3 posted on
05/02/2007 7:28:56 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Between the Lines
Appropriating business from telecom/cable outfits. How thoughtful of them.
How about “free” food?
4 posted on
05/02/2007 7:31:15 AM PDT by
Uncledave
To: Between the Lines
why??? why should taxpayers, particularly elderly and poor pay for joyriding on the information superhighway?
5 posted on
05/02/2007 7:31:22 AM PDT by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: Between the Lines
Government watching what you type bump.
6 posted on
05/02/2007 7:32:53 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(To a liberal, "feeling safe" is far more important than "being safe" Credit to TruthShallSetYouFree)
To: Between the Lines
"It will provide the virtual infrastructure that rural communities don't have. It will add to a benefit to healthcare. It will have a benefit in the area of education -- virtual schools, distance learning. It will facilitate law enforcement, emergency services." And porn will stream into every village and hamlet, destroying more lives and marriages. That's the downside.
13 posted on
05/02/2007 7:55:47 AM PDT by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: Between the Lines
Any bets on how long until they try denying access to ‘certain’ sites, and censoring content? If they did free, state provided internet here in VA I would stick with my DSL, assuming it is still available after the state pulls the bottom out of the market.
17 posted on
05/02/2007 8:08:10 AM PDT by
KoRn
(Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republians - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
To: Between the Lines
Great. Another government that thinks it should be in the telecommunications business. Never mind that private enterprise is already serving the demand, the State needs to go into competition with them to make everything “right”.
18 posted on
05/02/2007 8:10:15 AM PDT by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: Between the Lines
S.C. must have jack for telecom inrastructure.
Alaska has internet access even to the poorest of village schools (thanks to the USF) and the commercial provider also provides internet to villages homes via WiFi, at a cost. No free ride.
Alaska is bigger than S.C. and has no real road system, most of telecom is via SATCOM links and still, it works here.
20 posted on
05/02/2007 8:14:14 AM PDT by
ASOC
(Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
To: Between the Lines
S.C. must have jack for telecom inrastructure.
Alaska has internet access even to the poorest of village schools (thanks to the USF) and the commercial provider also provides internet to villages homes via WiFi, at a cost. No free ride.
Alaska is bigger than S.C. and has no real road system, most of telecom is via SATCOM links and still, it works here.
21 posted on
05/02/2007 8:14:21 AM PDT by
ASOC
(Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
To: Between the Lines
I don't know if S.C. will be the first. I believe Michigan will have free wireless statewide by the end of 2008.
We have it in the city where I live - it isn't superfast, but it is 6 times faster than dial-up. And it's free. You can pay $20 a month to get a 30 times faster than dial-up if you choose.
37 posted on
05/02/2007 12:42:28 PM PDT by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: Between the Lines
And in 24 months the network will be obsolete.
I think the state should provide free power, gas and water to everyone too. /sarcasm
41 posted on
05/02/2007 1:21:15 PM PDT by
CJ Wolf
To: Between the Lines
So how fast will this wireless be.
52 posted on
05/03/2007 3:38:44 AM PDT by
dennisw
("What one man can do, another can do" -- The Edge)
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53 posted on
05/03/2007 7:20:05 PM PDT by
SC Swamp Fox
(Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
To: Between the Lines
Maybe this will kick BellSouth AT&T hard enough in the ass to provide my rural neighborhood with the DSL we were promised TWO years ago.
57 posted on
05/03/2007 8:21:34 PM PDT by
upchuck
(Jesus Christ and the American Soldier: One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.)
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