Here's another good and BETTER option -- demand congress to cut 200 Billion dollars/yr from Pentagon spending, re-invest that into nationwide fiber infrastructure(Namely laying the conduit and pipeline for underground wiring) -- then work w/ all telecoms to co-op building out a co-op shared fiber network nationwide...
Personally I don't think any company should eb able to 'own' something that runs along city lines under the street. -- just like they can't own the airwaves..
Imagine just taking 200 billion + some equal investment from Google, ATT, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, etc- - and it'll be owned by the gov't and all 5 major carriers...
Also let users buy in early @ monthly rate they're willing to pay say $5 per month -- which will accrue --so say it takes two years, they'd have $120 in donations to the cause, and a $120 credit for fiber. If they did $100 a month they'd have $2400 in free fiber credit, etc... Let's crowdfund the hell out of this thing and just make it happen... The future is literally waiting on the speed of our broadband pipes.
Semi-relatedly, one of my greatest criticisms of all that stimulus spending of the last several years was how incredibly unimaginatively it was allocated. I've seen figures which indicate gigabit fiber could be rolled out nationally to 95%+ of homes and businesses for $400 billion if gov't paid it all, or $100 billion if done in a private/public partnership. Another figure I've read is that if the U.S. heavy duty truck fleet were converted to run on CNG, we could reduce our oil usage by 20%.
Those would both have been transformational accomplishments, and the $950B or so spent in total could have probably done it all thrice over. Bitterly disappointing.
Personally I don't think any company should eb able to 'own' something that runs along city lines under the street. -- just like they can't own the airwaves..
Imagine just taking 200 billion + some equal investment from Google, ATT, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner, etc- - and it'll be owned by the gov't and all 5 major carriers...
Also let users buy in early @ monthly rate they're willing to pay say $5 per month -- which will accrue --so say it takes two years, they'd have $120 in donations to the cause, and a $120 credit for fiber. If they did $100 a month they'd have $2400 in free fiber credit, etc... Let's crowdfund the hell out of this thing and just make it happen... The future is literally waiting on the speed of our broadband pipes.