"AT&T & Verizon, with the FCC, Blocked My Access to Critical Broadband Data"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/att--verizon-with-the-fcc_b_9259834.html First, let's kill off a myth about the existing copper networks. 'Common wisdom' would have you think that the copper wires are unprofitable or that they are not being used and should be 'shut off'. However, the FCC's recent summary data refutes that - and we're talking about lots of money that suddenly just showed up. In 2015, the FCC claimed that in 2013, special access revenues was now a $40 billion market, and that 60%, the majority of the market, are still 'copper-based' services using the existing copper utility wires -- that's over $24 billion dollars. This is up from their last projection, where they claimed that the entire market was only $12-$18 billion. This means that the access markets are growing, and therefore the number of copper-based lines and services have also been growing -- and fast; according to the FCC the market more than doubled, (though some of this is because FCC's original numbers were just stale, made up approximations). - - - = = = = Internet Political Trolls Collection Project (USA 2016): http://vortex.com/trolls = = = = --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
