Yet AT&T profited by $7.3 billion last year, which is enough to replace 2.3% of their assets (including buildings and wires).
Assuming those number are right, they could make more money by selling all their stuff and investing the money in 10-year treasury bonds. The yield there is a bit over 3%, and not quite as risky as operating a business.
What the fine article fails to mention is how little helium is captured at wells. There is no point in figuring how much is in fraking wells since none of them capture any of it.
Which is why I called it an economic problem. You can damn well be sure that fracking wells would figure out a way to capture the helium if Joe Consumer's floating balloon budget started to approach his natural gas heat and appliances budget.
There's something missing from the report, and that's Metropolitan speeds.
My broadband has about 5-10 mbps bandwidth if I transfer something from "general" Internet, but metropolitan speed is 100 mbps. My country-wide connection speed is about 50 mbps, tested with friends; http, p2p and ftp transfers are all equally fast.
What country is this. In the US, a connection like that would be seen as a rip-off. (I'm paying for a 100 Mbps connection, but only get 5-10 % of the speed when connecting to the actual Internet) I take it that most people are using a single ISP, and their internal network is much faster that their peering. There are enough different ISPs in the US, that that probably wouldn't work as well.
... I will never purchase one of these pieces of s*!t. I have a firm policy of refusal to support any vendor who utilizes DRM
...ummm, Syntax error?
The bogosity meter just pegged.
