Be careful what you wish for here. Keep in mind that once the
entrenched providers get the regs they crave new services will grind
to a halt. There will simply be too many barriers to entry. No new
competitors will enter the field. At least not until the subsidies get
so grossly unbalanced that the pot of gold is then worth the effort
(see MCI vs AT&T).
The internet has grown rapidly *because* it is not regulated. Once it
gets regulated then everything must go through regulatory approval.
There will fewer and fewer new services.
A good example of this is 'high speed' - 64 kb - data service to the
home. AT&T had the technology available in the early to mid 70's.
Called it ISDN. But due to both internal politics and regulatory
issues it was not rolled out until the early 90's. Much too late. The
same thing will happen once the pols take over the internet. Nothing
will get approved without them getting their cut.
As for those who say the the internet is a utility . . . well . . .
your electric service is a utility. Does everyone pay the same
electric bill no matter how much electricity they use? Broadband
should be no different. Those who use the most should pay the most.
There is no justification for taxing those who use little bandwidth to
subsidize the heavy users. Let the heavy users pay their fair share
and not burden those who are light users.
Just as in electricity, it is cheap and easy to measure the quantity
consumed by each user. No justification whatsoever for charging one
flat fee to all (none that is, other than "I want somebody else to pay
for my bandwidth").
73 de dave
ab9ca/4
On 2/26/15 10:30 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
On 2015-02-26 11:08 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
Has anyone read the regulations that they kept hidden? Do we really
know what is in them?
Look at the last set of "Net Neutrality" regulations from the FCC -
the ones that the industry had over turned on the grounds that the
Commission did not have the authority to adopt them because "Broadband
was not a utility".
Seems to me the industry got what they wanted <G> forced the Commission
to reclassify "Information Service" as "Communications Utility." Voice
and cable have been regulated as utilities for a very long time - who
in their right mind would consider broadband data delivered on the very
same networks to be anything other than a utility for the very reasons
that voice and cable are utilities?
73,
... Joe, W4TV
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