GET YOUR HANDS OFF THE WEB
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: Stephen H. Wildstrom]
[Comentary] The behavior of the top telecommunications companies, especially
Verizon Communications and AT&T, has convinced me that more government
involvement is needed to keep communications free of corporate interference.
There's a certain irony here. The carriers warn that without premiums to pay
for advanced services, the U.S. risks falling behind other nations in
broadband. But the U.S. is already losing ground to the rest of the
industrialized world in broadband speed and percentage of homes served. Last
year the U.S. fell from 12th to 15th in broadband penetration among 29
countries ranked by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development.
Most of those nations are enthusiastic regulators. The hands-off approach
hasn't served consumers well. And the Web is far too important to entrust the
free flow of information to the shifting whims of a few big companies.
Government must step in and tell them to leave our content alone.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2007/tc20071024_623695.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index
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