Speed up the Internet, Tax it!

" You know Colson had that sign on the wall in his office saying ONCE YOU HAVE THEM BY THE BALLS, THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS WILL FOLLOW." 
Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate: Mr Nixon Has Cashed His Check, p. 260

I don't know what is going on with the net in Ottawa! Checked the speed of my connection using speedtest.net last Sunday night and it had the latency of a truck struck sow! (130ms)  But testing again tonight it has the latency of damn near South Korea! And fast! Tonight it wacked in at 16.3 Mb/s! with a latency of 29ms. But damn that ain't any where near the best in the world...  Why is that do you think?

The top five fastest countries in the world are South Korea!, Latvia!, Lithuania, Moldova?, and the Aland Islands! I have a funny  feeling that the above speedsters are not being served by Rogers Communications. I will bet that they are being served by a dedicated government utility! Just like we USED TO HAVE in Canada...So we have a problem here.

Rogers Communications...

Capitalism HAS NOT  brought us a lot of things. Capitalism did not bring us the first man in space. Capitalism did not bring us atomic energy. Capitalism did not bring us the baddest air lift records in the history of the world. (See any edition of Janes All The Worlds Aircraft) Capitalism did not bring us the AK-47, the best combat rifle in the history of the world. Why Hell! Capitalism did not bring us the Internet! Capitalism is really dragging it's ass!

The only solution I see is to slap a Tobin like tax on the internet! I suggest a 1.5 cent tax on every gigabite of used bandwidth. And for over use a $1.00 per gigabite tax payable by not the customer but Rogers Communication! Hah! that will get that out of the way pretty damn fast, you think?

Bell...

Form a Canadian Government Crown Corporation and use the said tax revenues to build the people of Canada the ultimate Freaking fastest net on Freaking Earth! I mean Jesus Christ with a T-3! We invented the goddamn telephone! We built most are near all the technology. How the hell did we end up as number 56 in the world! 

Telus at the CRTC...

Lets call the said new Crown Corporation say Lightning Canada. Now they will bring the net to everyone in Canada just like the government brought every one rail service! Now if you have  jurisdiction over the Canadian net you could build all the parts that the corps won't build, cause they are waiting for the other guy to do it. Now mix in corporate "bigger dick syndrome" and what do you have? Rogers, Telus and Bell....

The only way we will have as fast an internet as "South Korea" is if the government builds it, why just like in South Korea!

" I am waiting at the wrong pole....." Hmmmm.....