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LC Brazil: Consumers, experts, or admins?LC Brazil: Consumers, experts, or admins?Posted Sep 7, 2010 18:30 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)Parent article: LC Brazil: Consumers, experts, or admins?
"With funds obtained in this way, Maddog is able to say that the project is being launched with no government money at all."
He is able to say anything he wants, :) but that doesn't meant it isn't a lie or at best deceptive. Taxation is taxation, even if the money never passes through the governments coffers on the way to its destination.
It does sound like a great project though. I might ask why such approaches are not tried in the US (and I hope that the answer has nothing to do with the funding approach)?
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why such approaches are not tried in the US Posted Sep 7, 2010 19:12 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]
Where are you going to find large apartment buildings with no internet access in the US?
why such approaches are not tried in the US Posted Sep 7, 2010 21:47 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
It depends on how you define Internet access... if you are talking greater than 1.5 Mb/s then there are large parts of the US without that. And you might actually get better coverage in some cities in Brazil because they have 4G networks (or some equivalent). My guess is that the maddog network would be about putting dishes on top of buildings and doing networking that way as its easier than digging up roads etc. [Though it depends on the city and area of city in Brazil.]
LC Brazil: Consumers, experts, or admins? Posted Sep 7, 2010 21:54 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]
I would guess that the answer is exactly what you fear. This business has a high risk level and not a high enough return on investment... and US businesses usually only go into that region if there is a government incentive or penalty not to. Add in virtual monopolies on telecommunication and your profit potential goes way south.
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