It is as much about that as the ACA is about healthcare. (only
makes it worse and way more costly) THat is why you can't read it.
Oppose it.
Favor it or do nothing: you will get worse service for a lot more money
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
People getting their internet through a telco are already being
taxed, Comcast has been getting a free ride in that regard.
I am 100% with Dan and Curt on this, in theory.
The cable and telephone companies have been enjoying enforced monopoly
status, but (at least since they stopped rolling out wire) haven't
been providing any real benefit to the public in exchange for their
continued monopoly position. At least in the urban central NC areas,
this means they have perpetually raised rates without investing in
infrastructure, and so now have a non-competitive, unreliable,
overpriced product - or at least, it seems like it should be
relatively so, given that we aren't allowed to get offerings from
other companies.
If I wouldn't get shot or put in jail for calling Comcast or Charter
or some other non-preordained wireline service provider, I would
probably be against incremental regulation... But the fact is that I
-would- end up facing the full force of the law, and Time Warner could
call the cops if I got Charter to agree to service my house - a house
they won't actually service, incidentally, but that got put in their
territory long before I was born. If the providers are going to get
unique protection of government then they should at least suck it up
and not abuse their customers. When Great Britain has a freer ISP
market than the US, you know there is a problem.
That said the FCC document is still secret, so who knows what was
actually recommended.
Best,
Tim
does not pull cable with his MBZs... yet...
also does not have broadband access, according to the federal definition
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