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NATIONAL BROADBAND POLICY RANT
[SOURCE: INTERNET.COM, AUTHOR: Mark Koskenmaki]
[Commentary] Why do we need to know how many Americans subscribe to broadband
services? Why would the mayor of my town, for instance, want to know? What
public purpose would be served by expending resources to find out? Koskenmaki
argues there is no reason. So why is the FCC and Congress in a dither about
where broadband is available? If people want it, it will come. Just like
grocery stores. If it won't, then the real question of consequence is: WHY? Is
it not economically feasible? Is it physically not feasible? Is the actual
demand enough to sustain the mechanism to provide the service? What artificial
obstructions exist to providing broadband? There are only two choices: Either
private enterprise fills the needs, like grocery stores door government takes
over and "takes care of us" like they did with the telephone monopoly way back
when. There is no "middle ground". For decades we paid absurdly high costs for
phone services, and "innovation" and "change" did not even exist. Either we
become ardent, vocal, and so persistent in our defense, insisting upon keeping
free enterprise alive and the regulators the hell away...or we give up and
admit that we prefer monopolies.
http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/politics/2007/national_broadband_policy_rant.html
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