On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Stewart Marshall wrote:
Less competition more regulation!
Today's Morning Edition had a report on broadband regulation...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125554738
Amid all the brouhaha about neocons battling to get the government off
our backs and allowing corporations a free run to empty our pockets
there was an interesting nugget of information...
The USA lead the world in Internet connectivity until the Bushies
decided that the Telecommunications Act of 1934 did not apply to
Internet services. Ever since that fateful decision service quality in
the USA has fallen like a rock.
The corporations invented the idea that bandwidth was a scarce
resource to be sold to the public drop by drop. They started to
throttle services like BitTorrent and block services like Skype.
Suddenly the the wide open cables lost their ability to move our data
unimpeded unless they got greased by the payment of extra tolls.
You bet we need more regulation. And more competition. The two do not
oppose one another. When the oligarchs have us by the throats the only
way to get competition is via regulation.
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