I'm with you, Phil. As I recall, you're retired FCC staff. If anyone
understands FCC Rules, you do.
I WANT (caps added for emphasis) FCC regulation of our airwaves, and of
our internet. I'm old enough to remember when the FCC had staff to
enforce their Rules, and things were much better then. We lived in fear
of the FCC, and kept our noses clean. Anyone who subscribes to cable has
experienced bills that increase for no reason, and when it's the only
game in town, as it is for my internet, all we can do is pay it. So YES,
YES, YES, I want someone sitting in Comcast's shoulder. These assholes
are billing me monthly rent for a cable modem that I BOUGHT from a local
store in 2006, and there isn't a damned thing I can do about it. YES, I
want regulation!
Now, those who demand "small government" have made the FCC toothless,
without the budget to enforce their own Rules. THAT'S why we have RF
noise from all those consumer devices that make it difficult to use our
ham stations, and even to tune in AM radio.
73, Jim K9YC
On Thu,2/26/2015 8:09 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
That's what all the Title II fracas is about. Those of us in the
professional (regulatory) field fault the FCC of 20 years ago for not
insisting on that but creating this "information service" category
rather than putting them in the "telecommunications service" category
from the beginning.
As hams we are used to having the FCC look over our shoulders to make
sure that we play by the rules. It's time that the "broadband"
infrastructure providers get a taste of that.
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