Brendan Burgess
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Will the rural dwellers subsidise my higher city rent or mortgage?The plan is expected to require the State to invest hundreds of millions of euro to connect more than 700,000 premises across the country, which are in areas that are unlikely to ever be served by commercial high-speed broadband operators.
...He also said the cost of the service to the consumer would be affordable, and in line with the prices paid by city dwellers.
...The distance that will have to be covered by the State as it rolls out the broadband is equivalent to 100,000km of road network.
This is the type of development which is welcomed by those benefiting from it, but those of us who will have to pay for it stay quiet.
i heard someone liken high speed broadband to houses getting electricity all those years ago. In the digital age we are living in, shouldn't everyone have access to it?
Isn't that the case though for all infrastructure?
Of course not (that's not what motorways are forOK, but we don't have a motorway going to every cottage on the top of a hill.
Of course not (that's not what motorways are for), but we do have publicly-funded roads going to every cottage on top of a hill - urban and rural.
Yesterday, Mr Coonan said “the protesters in Dublin act like parasites and live off country people as they have never acknowledged the role of country people”.
The electricity analogy is a good one. You could make the same argument for electricity Brendan - sure can't all those rural dwellers not erect their own electricty generation turbines/water mills, etc.OK, but we don't have a motorway going to every cottage on the top of a hill.
I don't agree that it's like electricity at all. Can people not get access to the internet via other means than broadband?
Brendan
I don't agree that it's like electricity at all. Can people not get access to the internet via other means than broadband?
Brendan
Although, would it not just encourage people to live in areas where the cost of providing services such as, for example: schools, hospitals, water, sewerage, roads, etc is far more expensive per capita that in urban areas.
Sort of like the way rural dwellers with wells, group water schemes or septic tanks currently pay for water facilities for town and city dwellers through taxation.
....Improving the infrastructure of the country is an investment...
This only benefits a small portion of the drivers in the Country, hence should it have been built?
What about doing a Google search for "Satellite Broadband Ireland"?
I count 7 suppliers with 20MB down /6MB up, including TV packages, etc. (Netflix would not be a necessity, business and education would)
If greater speeds are required then its a matter of paying for it.
Will the rural dwellers subsidise my higher city rent or mortgage?
Brendan
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