Without traffic management standards and support, our roads would be a bloodbath.
Without the FCC you wouldn't have an open frequency for anything. As a Ham Radio operator for over 50 years, I appreciate the regulations that protected the nursery for some of our greatest electronic developments. With the FCC bending to some political shenanigans we do have some less-than-fair bias toward (ahem) a segment of the telecommunications industry. Granted. And, on the whole...I'm not sure I agree with the remainder of W.C. Fields' gravestone (although, they seem to be learning). But, we have a new and fertile environment for exploitation and interference. If a major broadband provider made the sources of media downloads (iTunes, etc.) either pay or suffer intolerable sluggishness (as opposed to the provider's own fast-as-hell pay-for-songs/movies site) then the provider is using their pipe to an unfair advantage. That's Net Neutrality as being presented to the FCC and Congress. Broadband providers, WISPA members included, are becoming a necessary utility. Here in San Antonio, the rumor was that (ex-pres.)Ed Whitacre not only didn't use computers but thought of e-mail as stupid. He was reportedly the source of the philosophy that AT&T owned the transport and that GOOGLE was making BILLIONS off the connection and AT&T wasn't participating. That's a perfectly natural perspective for an old timer with the pre-CarterPhone mentality. As a side note, however, I don't know where he was during the 1-900 fiasco in the '90s. However, we need to work together to present the positive benefits that we bring to the population, like the TVA. You can't argue with motherhood and virtue and that's what the message is. Flailing at boogiemen isn't a help. The fact that WISPA helps bring the bottom-of-the-list USA to the top of broadband users' survey is! . . . J o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown - 3 Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking Hyperbole is not helpful to discourse. If you want no FCC go to some other country. Are you really the anarchist you come across as? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > <insert witty tagline here> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Muto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:31 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Report: FCC to Punish Comcast Over Web Blocking > > >> Does the FCC have jurisdiction over all the bit-content passing on the >> Internet network or control of a providers management >> of network resources? > > Didn't you know the FCC was holy, and that objecting to anything they want > is "political" and must be never spoken of here? > > /extreme sarcasm > > We, as an industry, should have been screaming at the top of our lungs, > writing objections to EVERYTHING the FCC has tried to demand from us or > take > from us from the day WISPA was a legal entity, till now. And I mean > EVERY > mandate of any kind. > > But no, that's playing "politics". > > When they issue decrees that turn your balance sheet negative and bankrupt > you, will it still be "political" to object? > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
