http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 16:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-57692 Are Gamers Served by More Government Regulation and Spending? | The Technology Liberation Front Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:44:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=15869#comment-57692 <p>[...] I suppose I could see the ECA’s logic if those schemes actually worked. But we have 70 years of experience with these pork subsidy programs and they have proven to be an abysmal failure. They are prone to [...]</p> [...] I suppose I could see the ECA’s logic if those schemes actually worked. But we have 70 years of experience with these pork subsidy programs and they have proven to be an abysmal failure. They are prone to [...]

]]> http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-65733 dm Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:35:50 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=15869#comment-65733 <p>On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).<br><br>TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons "suggested here" apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.</p> On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).

TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons “suggested here” apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-62099 dm Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:35:50 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=15869#comment-62099 <p>On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).<br><br>TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons "suggested here" apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.</p> On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).

TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons “suggested here” apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-57674 dm Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:35:50 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=15869#comment-57674 <p>On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).<br><br>TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons "suggested here" apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.</p> On the other hand, Verizon and other phone companies are pulling out of rural areas, which are also not served by cable. There might be a role for subsidized broadband (presumably wireless) to those areas, just as there was a role for subsidized roads to bring crops to market (and I think roads might be a better analogy to broadband than electification).

TVA made the region poorer, how, exactly? Which reasons “suggested here” apply? Discouraging competition? For electrical production? For that matter, poorer than what? The region was already pretty poor, and it seems to me that lack of resources and education might have had a more serious effect than any putative effect of the TVA.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2009/01/24/nyts-hansell-on-broadband-stimulus-hooey/comment-page-1/#comment-57625 Berin Szoka Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:19:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=15869#comment-57625 <p>Amen, Adam. Let's not forget the experience of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was intended to subsidize electricity—the "broadband" of its day—in that region. But instead of promoting economic development in that region, it simply made the region poorer for the very reasons you suggest here.</p> Amen, Adam. Let's not forget the experience of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was intended to subsidize electricity—the “broadband” of its day—in that region. But instead of promoting economic development in that region, it simply made the region poorer for the very reasons you suggest here.

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