03-28-2015, 10:38 AM
This bill is for another study. These studies spend a lot of our tax money and the end product is a report. It's kind of like going to a doctor to see about a liver transplant and he says his son could do a real good study for you, fees applied of course, and you would get a top notch report. How can you go wrong with a study, everybody loves studies, especially the people getting paid to do them.
Comcast buying out Time Warner isn't a done deal.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspecula...h-comcast/
FCC's Recent Rulings Add Uncertainty To Time Warner Cable's Deal With Comcast
There are already all kinds of references available for Hawaii island showing the broadband availability, cell, satellite, cable, DSL, fiber. What needs to be studied even more? Hawaiian Telcom doesn't want to roll out more DSL to Puna because the rate of return is low versus cost of operations (storms and albezia trees). Satellite gets broadband but it costs more, there is lag, and the up speed is slow.
This holds more prospects for wider fiber rollout. Charter is Paul Allen and he has a place up by Kohala. He does have interests in Hawaii island and there are several FO initiatives going on. Could be Comcast is just too big for this merger to be approved by the FCC and it sounds like Charter is waiting in the wings.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/charter-eady...201385376/
Charter Ready To Go After Time Warner Cable If Comcast Deal Falls
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
Comcast buying out Time Warner isn't a done deal.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspecula...h-comcast/
FCC's Recent Rulings Add Uncertainty To Time Warner Cable's Deal With Comcast
There are already all kinds of references available for Hawaii island showing the broadband availability, cell, satellite, cable, DSL, fiber. What needs to be studied even more? Hawaiian Telcom doesn't want to roll out more DSL to Puna because the rate of return is low versus cost of operations (storms and albezia trees). Satellite gets broadband but it costs more, there is lag, and the up speed is slow.
This holds more prospects for wider fiber rollout. Charter is Paul Allen and he has a place up by Kohala. He does have interests in Hawaii island and there are several FO initiatives going on. Could be Comcast is just too big for this merger to be approved by the FCC and it sounds like Charter is waiting in the wings.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/charter-eady...201385376/
Charter Ready To Go After Time Warner Cable If Comcast Deal Falls
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*