Philip,
I don't know if you are being serious or sarcastic with your comment to
"vote them out of life" but IMO your comment is both ridiculous and
irresponsible. I ask that you try to contribute in a more responsible
fashion to this list.
jack
Philip Dorr wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Chuck Bartosch <ch...@clarityconnect.com> wrote:
On Mar 6, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Scottie Arnett wrote:
And to add, I thought the Broadband Stimulus was to make more broadband available. The telco's have everything already handed to them and have not done it in years. Now the gov't wants to make this available only to one provider in a given area? Who do you think will get that? WTH? I think we need to vote every elected person out of office now! Oh wait, money talks!
They just get replaced by someone else who does the same thing for essentially the same reasons (ie, our political system doesn't reward them for taking care of folks like us, essentially). So what's the point of bothering to vote them out of office?
Instead we should vote them and the companies that pay them out of life.
Chuck
Scottie
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:50:17 -0500
As a WISP, I resent the idea that my tax dollars may be used to compete with me.
As a taxpayer, at what point will the government realize we cant
afford all this?
-RickG
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Marco Coelho <coelh...@gmail.com> wrote:
FCC to propose revamping Universal Service Fund
AP
By JOELLE TESSLER, AP Technology Writer Joelle Tessler, Ap Technology
Writer – Fri Mar 5, 5:25 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet
connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government
program that now subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas.
The Federal Communications Commission will include a proposal to
revamp the Universal Service Fund as part of a national broadband plan
due to Congress on March 17. Although the proposal itself has been
expected for months, Friday's announcement offered the first solid
details.
The FCC said it envisions transforming the Universal Service program
over the next decade to pay for high-speed Internet access instead of
the traditional voice services that it currently finances. The
proposal would create a Connect America fund inside the Universal
Service program to subsidize broadband, and a Mobility Fund to expand
the reach of so-called 3G, or third-generation, wireless networks.
"It's time to migrate this 20th-century program," said Blair Levin,
the FCC official overseeing the broadband plan, which was mandated by
last year's stimulus bill. "We need to move the current system from
the traditional networks to the new networks."
The Universal Service Fund was established to ensure that all
Americans have access to a basic telephone line. Today, the program
subsidizes phone service for the poor, funds Internet access in
schools and libraries and pays for high-speed connections for rural
health clinics. But its biggest function is to bring telephone service
to remote, sparsely populated corners of the country, where it is
uneconomical for the private companies to build networks.
Funding for the $8-billion-a-year program comes from a surcharge that
businesses and consumers pay on their long-distance bills. That
revenue base is shrinking, placing the Universal Service Fund under
mounting pressure even as the FCC seeks to use it to subsidize
broadband.
The agency's plan will lay out several options to pay for the
proposals it outlined Friday, including one that would require no
additional money from Congress and one that would accelerate the
construction of broadband networks if Congress approves a one-time
injection of $9 billion.
Either way, Levin stressed, the proposal would not increase the annual
size of the Universal Service Fund, but rather would take money from
subsidies now used for voice services.
The FCC would also seek to save money by subsidizing no more than one
broadband provider in an areas. Some critics of the program have
complained that wireless companies now overlay landline systems with
new networks considered duplicative.
Levin said Connect America would not favor one technology over
another, be it cable, DSL or wireless.
The FCC proposal also envisions revamping the multibillion-dollar
"intercarrier compensation" system, the Byzantine menu of charges that
telecom carriers pay to access each other's networks and connect
calls. Any changes to the Universal Service Fund would also require
changes to intercarrier compensation because rural phone companies
tend to rely heavily on both funding sources.
The FCC's latest proposals will be part of a sweeping national roadmap
for bringing universal, affordable broadband connections to all
Americans.
Although the plan is due on March 17, the agency has already begun
releasing details, including a proposal to make more wireless spectrum
available for mobile broadband connections by letting television
broadcasters and others voluntarily cede some airwaves.
Some of the proposals will likely require congressional action, while
others might be up to the FCC to implement.
Yahoo article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_fcc_universal_service;_ylt=AgSGtpiLKKQbXooR3LKvT.cPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTMzNGcwMmcyBGFzc2V0Ay9hcC8yMDEwMDMwNS9hcF9vbl9oaV90ZS91c190ZWNfZmNjX3VuaXZlcnNhbF9zZXJ2aWNlBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl90b21ic3RvbmUEc2xrA2ZjY3RvcHJvcG9zZQ--
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Marco C. Coelho
Argon Technologies Inc.
POB 875
Greenville, TX 75403-0875
903-455-5036
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