I am not sure how the USF/Connect America fund has anything to do with
free conference calling providers. The free conference calling
providers are not being targeted. The LECs that offer revenue sharing
to said service providers are being targeted for "access stimulation."
The figures being quoted in the full order are outrageous. Once again,
this will hurt the small LEC, and it has nothing to do with the LECs who
have leveraged their presence to adopt such products.
One thing that is funny, is how USF is applied to interstate traffic,
and now the FCC wants to rule that all VoIP traffic is interstate
traffic. That sure is convenient.
As for tandem traffic, just wait. Verizon will have their fun with this
once it completes its current inter-carrier conquest.
Read the full order, not the 5 page executive summary.
Best Regards,
Gavin Grabias
Alcazar Networks, Inc.
Phone: 484-664-2800 x111
Fax: 484-664-2816
www.alcazarnetworks.com
On 12/6/11 9:57 AM, John Hass wrote:
You said it Steve, how can anyone be expected to be able to compete in
this Free Market when the Government is giving money away to the big
carriers to provide non-essential services. On the hopes the
incumbent builds out the network to support me at my acreage. I have
3 people on my 5 mile road, that is 10 miles out of town. How would
that be cost effective for anyone!!! I have a deal worked out with my
employer and set up a wireless point to point and it will work fine!
$1,500 up front for towers and radios 50mbps can't beat that!
I would like to see an incumbent compete with that.
--John
On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Steve Totaro wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Dovid Bender <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Anyone see this?
http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/uploads/file/ICC_USF%20Executive%20Summary%281%29.pdf
Look at page 5 section 17.
Got to love free markets....
Why should anyone have to subsidize broadband in the boonies? It
there is a market, it will be filled.
Some REGULATION is a good thing, but incentives should be dictated by
the market, meaning it will turn a profit after the initial
investment of build out.
I remember the Philly government wanting to blanket the city or at
least center city with Wifi on the taxpayer's dime.
I spend alot of time in Philly and know some companies directly and
many others indirectly that were in the process of doing this for
profit, using their own resources. They ran the numbers and figured
with the cost of build out and the number of projected subscribers at
a multi tiered price point, it made business sense to invest.
Then the city steps up with grand plans to tax everyone and give it
away, or maybe even charge for the service.
I didn't follow the outcome, but I personally know half a dozen
people that had their money invested in a free market venture that
made sense and were at risk of losing that market and all the money
invested in market analysis, planning, and actually starting to roll
out Wifi.
Needless to say, they were not too happy, and neither was I, even
though I was not directly impacted, as a trend, the government makes
it harder and harder to meet the entry barriers, then you have to
compete with them?
Like USPS, it loses good money over bad and competes with FedEx and
UPS. It will never be allowed to fail, but I am not so sure about
FedEx or UPS. The government might try to bail them out or whatever,
but I would think it would make more sense for them to bring them
under USPS and have something that was designed to profit, not just
deliver parcels.
Anyways, enough ranting about government intrusion on consumer
(businesses included) affairs.
Just pick up my trash, be around to put out fires, plow the roads,
keep them in working order. Stick to the basics that the citizens
need to be able to have a free market.
Thanks,
Steve T
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