So you want to subsidize a private company so they'll roll out lines and become a monopoly? Great...

Larger size gives you economy of scale, making it easier to deploy infrastructure.

You idiot, the USA's GDP and federal budget is 100x Sweden's. Our massive size gives us huge economies of scale that Norfic countries can't even begin to take advantage of.

Is this a joke? The budget hasn't shrunk under Republicans since Reagan ran up trillions of dollars in deficits. That was 30 years ago. How long does it take for you idiots to learn some basic US history?

Exclusive franchise agreements were outlawed in the freaking 90s. Infrastructure markets always develop into natural monopolies because of the insurmountable capital required to just enter the market. It has nothing to do with the fracking government,

This is basic economics 101.

Yes it is true.

The democrats are center right. Republicans oppose everything they propose.

Sounds pretty corrupt to me,

Then why don't we have fiber in all our cities? And your use of "economies of scale" is literally the opposite of what it actually means. The larger the entity the greater the economies of scale. While we spend $1 trillion+/year on our military, it would take $200 billion to cover the country in fiber. Or $20 billion/year over 10 years- probably less as subscriber revenue would pay for it as the network expanded. That's pocket change for our government.

Uh, no. The bigger the country and its GDP the greater the economies of scale. The density issue is stupid as well since we don't have FTTH in all the cities.

The US government has given the telcos hundreds of billions of dollars in USF fees over the last 15+ years. No one in the world has subsidized broadband as much as we have.

Whoever modded you flamebait didn't get the humor. That was actually funny.

Well Google releases "fixes" that break their own Android OS all the time. I guess they think that's standard procedure.

Meanwhile the past few CEOs who drove the company into bankruptcy still get paid millions every year. Must be nice to be paid more than almost everyone else in the country for utter incompetence.

I have the Z10 and my biggest beef with the OS is that's not even smooth. Use iOS or WP and you'll see pixel perfect smooth momentum scrolling in the browsers. BB10 can't manage this, despite supposedly being a modern OS. So annoying to deal with the kind of lag you normally experience on an underpowered Android smartphone. Meanwhile my backup Lumia 520 doesn't have any lag issues.

In fact it wasn't until BB OS 10.2.1 (it's at 10.3 now) that you could scroll the settings menu smoothly. Until then they ran everything on top of Adobe AIR. Ugh.