*Netflix* got what they wanted. They had better lobbyists and took a dispute between them and Comcast, expanded the scope to include the entire internet, and then got the .gov on their side.
73, K3LL/6 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W4TV Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in Morse code!! On 2015-02-26 11:08 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: > Has anyone read the regulations that they kept hidden? Do we really > know what is in them? Look at the last set of "Net Neutrality" regulations from the FCC - the ones that the industry had over turned on the grounds that the Commission did not have the authority to adopt them because "Broadband was not a utility". Seems to me the industry got what they wanted <G> forced the Commission to reclassify "Information Service" as "Communications Utility." Voice and cable have been regulated as utilities for a very long time - who in their right mind would consider broadband data delivered on the very same networks to be anything other than a utility for the very reasons that voice and cable are utilities? 73, ... Joe, W4TV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
