11-29-2017, 07:56 AM
The internet was founded, developed, and initially built with taxpayer money.
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That is true to a point. But since then, the thousands of inter-city and oceanic cable networks have been built and maintained by private companies, who get paid by the ISP's for that bandwidth and connectivity. In some cases, the ISP's themselves fund new cables to provide themselves with additional bandwidth (Hawaiian Telcom just completed a major one)
Check out some of the maps in the US of internet cables that are owned by private companies.
http://www.telecomramblings.com/network-...resources/
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That is true to a point. But since then, the thousands of inter-city and oceanic cable networks have been built and maintained by private companies, who get paid by the ISP's for that bandwidth and connectivity. In some cases, the ISP's themselves fund new cables to provide themselves with additional bandwidth (Hawaiian Telcom just completed a major one)
Check out some of the maps in the US of internet cables that are owned by private companies.
http://www.telecomramblings.com/network-...resources/