[44544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam McKenna)
Fri Nov 30 20:22:11 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:17:24 -0800
From: Adam McKenna <adam-nanog@flounder.net>
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500, James Smith wrote:
>
> Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
> the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
> sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
Why should your or I pay so that others can have high speed internet access?
Either high-speed consumer access is a viable industry or it isn't.
Government handouts are NOT the answer.
--Adam
