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Rural Americans Hurt by New FCC Rule
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2017 | Steve Sherman

Posted on 11/05/2017 8:13:50 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: ohioman
Not true.You can count the never Trumper columnists on one hand in Townhall.com.

They are Steve Chapman

Debra J. Saunders

Jonah Goldberg

Mona Charen

Ben Shapiro

Linda Chavez

and Bernard Goldberg

Well that is actually seven in total.

OMG the horror

61 posted on 11/05/2017 11:44:09 AM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Wuli

We have done that and it failed


62 posted on 11/05/2017 11:50:32 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!Goo)
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To: vette6387
Every night I see ads for HughesNet offering broadband service that is comparable to wireline-delivered products,

If you think that $80 a month for a service with a 30 GB per month cap is "comparable to wireline" then your local wireline service must really, really suck.

63 posted on 11/05/2017 11:58:34 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

One that lives in the county,....Which county?


64 posted on 11/05/2017 12:00:54 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Kaslin
Here in the good old USA, our broadband services purchase bandwidth that is mined, byte by byte, by teaspoon-wielding gnomes in the bandwidth mines of Neptune's second moon.

I with we could hijack a few of the bandwidth container ships that service the rest of the developed world.....

65 posted on 11/05/2017 12:03:54 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon; vette6387

Exede has a 25mb 150 GB cap for around $100 a month.


66 posted on 11/05/2017 12:04:40 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cva66snipe

Please post a link if you have one. I don’t see anything higher than 50G.


67 posted on 11/05/2017 12:10:46 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: dila813

The markets - all the telecom markets - were very different then.


68 posted on 11/05/2017 12:11:37 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Kaslin

You really are being silky


69 posted on 11/05/2017 12:12:53 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon
Please post a link if you have one. I don’t see anything higher than 50G

I can't link it thanks to cookies as it shows me as being a current customer. But I can give you the plan name which is "Unlimited Silver" with 25 Mps download speed. Actually it's Unlimited use with the slowdown Cap kicking in at 150GB. From what I'm seeing they changed their plans recently. I'm giving the info off my service contract. They do ask for Zip Code for determining plans and offers I think.

70 posted on 11/05/2017 12:27:26 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Kaslin

I’m ‘rural’ and have fiber optic to the house.

Buy all the ‘spectrum’ you want!!!


71 posted on 11/05/2017 12:29:57 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Billthedrill

Att comes out with som e really good deal every now and then when combined with direct. Satellite the only tv we can get, so i have direct and att. The direct i got was 50 at 50% for 2 years, so i pay $25 a mo for 2 years


72 posted on 11/05/2017 12:53:58 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. L)
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To: Wuli

it is all driven from economics, I heard the same thing before the last bubble driven from the same policy.


73 posted on 11/05/2017 1:05:12 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!Goo)
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To: Elsie
When our light company got fiber optic, for the internet I signed up for it and switched from Charter to CDE Lightband. I had it for about a year but at that time it still had problems, besides my husband was used to watching his programs and he could not find them on the CDE Lightband. So I got back on Charter again.

What I hate about Charter/Spectrum are the stupid ads they have. They act like is if the costumers are stupid.

Several years ago they showed an ads where parents made their kids watch TV instead of playing games, or reading books, etc. I called our charter company and complained. It did not take long and they stopped the ad.

74 posted on 11/05/2017 1:48:57 PM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: usconservative; Blue House Sue

I’ll do you one better:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;....”

*NO* where in this section does it state Congress has any authority to create said bureaucracy, nor either to ‘deploy’, ‘invest’ or the like in any SERVICE, or utility....outside of forts, postal roads...

Debating the charter of an illegal\unconstitutional govt entity only loses you the argument from word one.


75 posted on 11/05/2017 1:52:43 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Safetgiver

Well like in the sticks. How would I know.


76 posted on 11/05/2017 1:53:10 PM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Savage Rider

We will certainly see how this shakes out over the next few months...


77 posted on 11/05/2017 2:40:26 PM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: wattojawa

Ping.


78 posted on 11/05/2017 3:55:24 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Kaslin

I am amazed at some of the local ads our provider shows.

I’m on the eastern side of Indy and there are some ads for businesses around here; but there also some ads for way over in the western side of the state!

I wonder just who would decide to go to a dentist way over there from around here?!


79 posted on 11/05/2017 4:13:41 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fella

I’m with you. Live in the country. Cable will never be here as cost is prohibitive. Too much land between houses and houses set way back off the road. My driveway is 1/4 mile long :) No way a cable company can make any money around here.

Like you, I have a hotspot. Mine’s with Straight Talk with AT&T as a cell provider. I lucked out as there is an AT&T cell tower about a mile from here, line of sight, etc.

ST charges $50 for 5GB of data. Reception is very good and very fast. Instantaneous in most cases. Recharging the hotspot takes a five minute phone call. I’m completely satisfied. My only wish is that ST would start an unlimited data service. That might be worth it.


80 posted on 11/05/2017 6:43:53 PM PST by upchuck (Justice should be blind and not brain-dead. ~ Daniel John Sobieski . Hello Jeff Sessions...)
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