[capitalist229]

why should taxpayers, particularly elderly and poor pay for joyriding on the information superhighway?

The Verizons of the world will skim the cream from the blue zones and ignore the red zones, that's why.

As much as I hate govt regulation, it's going to take an act of Congress (as with electricity and telephone) to make broadband ubiquitous.

There is ample justification because the internet is now a part of the critical infrastructure.

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[TChris]

As much as I hate govt regulation, it's going to take an act of Congress (as with electricity and telephone) to make broadband ubiquitous.

Why the presumption that broadband should be ubiquitous? If there's a market, private enterprise will serve it.