At 12/20/2010 08:36 PM, MDK wrote: >I am opposed to ALL aspects, period. Nothing is broken such that it needs >the atomic bomb of government to fix it. > >This is a fix in desperate search of a "broken" and the closest thing to a >"broken" they can find is a hypothetical that isn't a disaster in the first >place.
Well, no, what IS PROFOUNDLY BROKEN is that the ILECs are no longer required to be common carriers. They built their network using common carrier privileges. They got their market share using common carrier privileges. And then they turned around and got their common carrier obligations lifted by the profoundly corrupt Cheney-Rove FCC. So now they control the content on their wires, and you can't lease them. That's just wrong. And the Genachowski FCC isn't doing squat about that, though they absolutely have the power to do so. We do need a national common carrier utility. There is a clear distinction between carriage and content. ISPs are content, not carriage. And WISPs are self-provisioned ISPs who deliver content over unlicensed facilities without using a carrier, and without being one. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
