I cant speak for WISPA's official opinon but.... I am still very much against NetNeutrality, as all it really is is an excuse for more regulation and less competion, and protection for content providers, and more liablilty for Access providers. And quite honestly, I am still appauled that the FCC bundled WISPs in with Fixed Wireline carriers, without any special consideration. That just supports why we should not want this group of FCC leaders to define and control our fate via more regulation.
Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: MDK To: WISPA General List Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:08 AM Subject: [WISPA] net neutrality... Two articles... http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/147121-house-leadership-questions-why-industry-isnt-fighting-in-net-regs?tmpl=component&print=1&page= Excerpt: House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) convened a meeting of top communications companies on Wednesday morning, where he questioned why they are not doing more to help Republicans in the fight against net-neutrality rules. A spokeswoman for McCarthy confirmed the meeting. http://biggovernment.com/nrbrown/2011/03/04/republican-reactive-neutrality/print/ Excerpt: The facts are that Net Neutrality is not about keeping all the bits equal. Net Neutrality is about regulatory creep. It's about controlling the infrastructure so that the message can be controlled. It's about things like Internet Sidewalks [5], and Free Press' founder Robert McChesneys desire to control information, have a government takeover of infrastructure, and control what is available to the people. We know this when he stated, "You will never, ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control." I asked once... about a year ago. "What side is WISPA on?" I still can't tell. Are they on the "no regulation is needed, get lost!" bandwagon, or are they on the "We welcome the chance to have input on your future plans" bandwagon? The two roads diverged a while back. Which is WISPA on? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
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