Slipping a fast one in. This meeting was just announced earlier FCC Localism Hearing Oct. 31, 2007, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Room TW-C305 following open commission meeting FCC, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20554
<http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-277560A1.pdf> FCC Localism Hearing to be Held in Washington, DC, on October 31st Washington, DC The Federal Communications Commission today announced it will hold its sixth localism hearing on Wednesday, October 31, 2007. The hearing will be held in the Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. Audio/Video coverage of the meeting will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the FCC's Audio/Video Events web page at <www.fcc.gov/realaudio> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will there be a time when corporate-owned internet providers start choosing > what goes through their networks? Some believe it's happening now, and they > seem to have legal right to do it. Comcast, one of the biggest US internet > providers, is showing signs of limiting P2P networks. > *http://tinyurl.com/yv7ddg > > *The problem here is that anti-regulation advocates can't promise that there > is competition in bandwidth providers. So it makes it impossible for us to > vote with our dollars. > > "In a perfect free market, customers would be free to pack up in leave > Comcast for greener and more open broadband pastures, but the competitive > landscape in the US doesn't always provide that kind of choice. More than a > few Comcast customers are faced with the choice of Comcast or dial-up, > leaving them with the Hobson's choice of hoping their data packets can evade > Comcast's traffic shaping police or not having broadband service at all." > > Jay > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > Video: http://ryanishungry.com > Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2aodyc > RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
