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I would love to see a wireless antenna everywhere there is a cell
tower, but since that is not going to happen, fiber optics will do.
Where I am at, you have to have century link to get internet service.
Of course just like everything else with century link, you have to
bundle your internet with either T.V. or phone service to get it at a
price you can afford. If you want to have just internet service with
them, you end up paying twice what you would if you bundled it with
the phone service. So, if I had a cell phone and did not want a phone
at my house, I would end up paying a huge amount for internet. This
takes away any options for say Vonage broadband phone. Right now, I
have my T.V. through Direct TV and my internet through century link.
Texas County Missouri, where I live, is 99% rural so it is not
feasible to run cable out to the majority of residents. I think if
Google ran Fiber out to the residents, the people would have a choice
between Centrytel, Directtv, and whichever company would operate the
T.V. side of the fiber optics. Also, that would give the people a
choice between Centrytel and Google internet service. If Google can
run fiber optics out to the rural areas, every resident could choose
who provides the services they want. I personally would choose Google
for Internet and T.V. and then a broadband phone company for phone.
Vonage or maybe just use Google talk with voice and video. I would set
it up with a Google number so when you called me, my cell and home
phones would both ring.
Anyway, with the development of online universities, the internet can
provide a person to get a better education. How many times have we
heard about the U.S. falling in the world education rankings. I
personally know about ten people who are scared to re-enter college
because they don't want to deal with being a 30 something or 40
something person in a classroom with teenagers. These are smart people
who are just too embarrassed to go back to school. If they had a
dependable internet connection, and a little help to learn how to use
the computer for classroom work, they could be retrained for the jobs
of today. Face it, there are hundreds of thousands of people out there
who are not working because the manufacturing jobs are moving over to
foreign countries where they can pay their workers 20 bucks a day. I
believe people can learn to be a nurse, accountant, paralegal, or even
a psychologist by using their home computers to go to college. We have
come so far with the internet that it should be a privilege for
everyone. Kind of like a drivers license only free. Free for every
individual people. Companies would be required to pay if they use the
net for company business. Individuals would get the internet free. Of
course, like a license, you can lose the privilege if you abuse it. If
someone is caught cyber-bullieing, viewing child exploitive pages, or
spamming, you would lose your privilege for a predetermined amount of
time. The information superhighway would be no different than internet
70. Paid for out of tax dollars.
Finally, I would have to go back to wireless antennas should be on
every cell tower. If companies got paid by the government for the
antennas to be on their towers then it would really be an information
superhighway!
Thanks,
Face