[opendtv] Re: FCC fact sheet on 2018 broadband deployment report
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:31:11 -0500
On Jan 18, 2018, at 3:37 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Chairman patting himself on the back. In fact, there is no evidence to
suggest that anything BUT the government subsidies, along with municipal, or
municipal and private partnerships, are doing anything to provide broadband
in the difficult rural areas. His idea that removing the neutrality mandate
does any good has never been demonstrated. If he were honest, he might look
to see what service requirements these rural municipal systems are setting. I
would not be surprised if net neutrality were not a requirement in most, or
all, cases. So the real damage will be in urban and suburban markets, where
incumbent carriers have a monopoly, and would get this nice little freebie,
right from the corrupt FCC.
Really?
So what T-Mobile is doing with their 600 MHz spectrum is being subsidized?
The Fixed Wireless trials currently being conducted by AT&T and Verizon are
being subsidized?
The municipal broadband systems in rural markets are being subsidized? Actually
they are, but not from the USF, but rather by local taxpayers.
You continue to hold the now discredited view that political gerrymandering and
heavy handed regulation protect consumers. The reality is almost always just
the opposite. Monopoly rates and delayed innovation...
And please get over the Net Neutrality garbage. Competition WILL impact
consumers in ALL markets. It was the Title II decision that was creating the
framework to regulate ISPs as local monopolies; rate regulation and content
controls were already on the horizon, and if Hillary had been elected we would
now be talking about significant new regulation of the Internet.
Before you argue this last point, please consider the following. It is the same
kind of fear mongering used by the Net Neutrality resistance: nobody is
violating the Net neutrality rules today, but just wait...they will!
Give the regulators the opportunity, and they WILL use (and abuse) that power...
Regards
Craig
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