Scottie, the problem is nothing at all to do with "open access". This "open access" has the effect of "fixing the type of access". Once you build a network, and a third party mandates you share it at prices they set, no more networks will be built. The prices will be fixed, the technology will be fixed, and nobody in that system will move anywhere. Why should they? Profit is guaranteed, forever, even if subsidy is required to support it. You have to have multiple last miles for there to be ANY competition in technological advancement. And one has to be able to build their own network and use it to best advantage without interference... or why build? If you don't believe me... Just agree to the following statement: "I agree to build a network, then allow MDK to use it at a price set by people who want the public to think they're being given something at rich people's expense, and I will maintain, update, and continue to upgrade capacity, while everyone who uses my network abuses it to the maximum possible amount, while doing everything to undercut my price. I also agree that if I charge enough that I can undercut the other users, that I will continue to "share" at ever lower prices, so that the appearance of a monopoly will not become apparent".
Yes, we have a "duopoly", sort of, with cable and dsl being at an uneasy truce, but fix the prices on both, and both will halt, exactly where they are, and no further advancement will occur in EITHER industry. Why should they? Any effort to get ahead in the game simply results in your piece of the pie being confiscated and given to those who put no investment into it. Once the pipe has been defined in price, size, and technology, it simply becomes fixed. Which is why telephone service took more than a half century to advance from rotary dial to DTMF. Once we blew apart the official monopoly and allowed competition for every mile, the actual obsolescence of voice over copper became obvious in a very short period of time. You want to see REAL advancement happen? Have the FCC and Congress reduce regulatory barriers to all forms of telecommunication - from spectrum shortages, to monopoly status for various types of providers, to rules about availability of public real estate, and the repeal of at least 90% of the completely useless and pointless regulations out there. We don't need Congress or some pointy-heads at the FCC to write us a "plan". it will be asininely stupid as the old Soviet Union "plans" to modernize the USSR. Beaurocrats are and always will be utterly incompetent at deciding such future directions. Have them repeal 99% of the income tax, OSHA, and other rules (keeping the .5% that are useful), remove the barriers to competition that exist at both federal and state levels, and give us some tools to fight the local ones, and then run for cover, because we'll be charging into the future like tigers chasing prey. Once we start setting prices by some beaurocrat, and using regulators to decide "fair cost" or "fair price" of something, that's basically... the end. They will never admit to their failures and from that point on, the game is: If it succeeds and makes a profit, tax it. If taxing it doesn't fix it, tax it some more. Once you've killed it with stupidity, then subsidize it forever to make your plan look like a success. I want no part of such things, and how DARE you people think it's a good idea to force it upon the people, and upon us... with our own money used against us, of all things. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Scottie Arnett" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:28 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ > > Did they even give the "open access" a chance even back then? This was the > start for the end of the dial-up ISP's. Do they not remember the end of > "line sharing" in the early 2000's? The throw-off of what the big players > did not think would ever succeed, being dial-up and what may come > afterward? No, they were making big money even off that. Then they looked > forward for once and saw that the future was not as bright as they had > thought. NOW, they want it all, and still do! I will say again, let's go > back to the Computer Inquires Acts and force these big players to go by > the books...no cross subsidizing, an Enforcement Bureau at the FCC that > can't be paid off, etc.... > > If they think we can not build our own networks out of what they have > built(with gov't help), then us WISP have been building out networks that > the big guys will not serve for almost 2 decades. The article claims that > "open access slows buildouts and innovation." WTF? I know that we can > prove that different. I have built networks out in the middle of BFE, and > many of you have in much larger population areas! The big guys have not > because they can't see a return in the next 10 years...that seems to > happen when you have to bury fiber or copper into the middle of nowhere, > without USF funds, or other gov't incentives. > > Being bent over in BFE, > Scottie > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Jeff Broadwick" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:51:48 -0400 > >>Wow, Jack and Patrick. >> >>I respect the two of you as much as any two people in this industry. Has >>the day come when posting an article about broadband, from a respected >>national newspaper, warrants this sort of a response on list? I wasn't >>trying to throw a bomb...I don't really have a firm opinion on this >>particular matter. I thought that the List members would be interested in >>the article. End of story. >> >>There are many different points of view on this List. I respect that and >>I >>can respectfully disagree with just about anyone. I really try to keep my >>personal political opinions confined to Facebook. If the day has come >>that >>one cannot make this sort of post, then maybe it's time for me to drop off >>of the List. >> >> >>Regards, >> >>Jeff >> >> >>Jeff Broadwick >>ImageStream >>800-813-5123 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 800-813-5123 >>end_of_the_skype_highlighting x106 (US/Can) >>+1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>Behalf Of Jack Unger >>Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:46 PM >>To: WISPA General List >>Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ >> >>It's those damn communists. They're on the march again. Quick, man the >>barricades! >> >>Wait, I'm wrong. It's AT&T and Verizon. They're on the march again. >>Quick, open the gates to the City. >> >>Jeff Broadwick wrote: >>> REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 15, 2010 >>> Broadband Trojan Horse >>> The FCC has a new plan but doesn't want a vote. >>> Health care isn't the only policy arena in which the Obama >>> Administration aims to ram through controversial new rules. The >>> Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil a "national >>> broadband plan" opposed by industry and without any of the five >>commissioners voting on it. >>> >>> Last year, Congress directed the FCC to develop a plan to make >>> high-speed Internet available to more people. But given that 95% of >>> Americans already have access to some form of broadband-and 94% can >>> choose from at least four wireless carriers-rapid broadband deployment >>> is already occurring without new government mandates. >>> >>> Since 1998, the FCC has classified broadband as an "information service" >>> subject to less regulation than traditional telecom services. The >>> Supreme Court's Brand X decision in 2005 validated that >>> classification, and the upshot has been more investment, innovation >>> and competition among Internet service providers, all to the benefit of >>consumers. >>> >>> In 2009 alone, broadband providers spent nearly $60 billion on their >>> networks. Absent any evidence of market failure, the best course for >>> the FCC is to report back to Congress that a broadband industrial >>> policy is unnecessary. Instead, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is >>> moving to increase the reach of his agency and expand government control >>of the Web. >>> >>> Among other things, he wants broadband services reclassified so the >>> FCC can more heavily regulate them. The national broadband plan, to be >>> unveiled tomorrow, will call for using the federal Universal Service >>> Fund to subsidize broadband deployment. The USF currently subsidizes >>> phone service in rural areas, and Mr. Genachowski knows that current >>> law prevents it from being used to subsidize broadband unless >>> broadband is reclassified as a telecom service. Congress ought to be >>> wary of letting the FCC expand its jurisdiction through back doors like >>this. >>> >>> Mr. Genachowski wants more control over broadband providers so that he >>> can implement "net neutrality" rules that would dictate how AT&T, >>> Verizon and other Internet service providers manage their networks. To >>> date, Congress has given the FCC no such authority. Nor has the agency >>> had success in court. Based on oral arguments last month, the D.C. >>> Circuit Court of Appeals is almost certain to rule against the FCC in >>> a case involving Comcast's network management. >>> >>> At the urging of liberal advocacy groups like Free Press and Public >>> Knowledge, Mr. Genachowski also wants to use the national broadband >>> plan as a vehicle for returning to the bad old 1990s era of "open >>> access" >>> regulations. He recommends forcing major broadband providers like Time >>> Warner Cable and Qwest to share their high-speed networks with smaller >>> competitors at federally set rates. We can't think of a better way to >>> reduce capital investment and slow the build-out of high-speed networks. >>> >>> Mr. Genachowski's proposals are meeting resistance from telecom >>> companies and fellow commissioners, which is reason enough to put his >>> broadband plan to an agency vote. Instead, the chairman is urging his >>> colleagues to sign a general statement that endorses the goals of the >>> plan and ignores the details. >>> >>> "Instead of risking a split vote among the five regulators on >>> approving the plan," reports National Journal, "Genachowski is seeking >>> consensus on a joint statement, which sources said would provide him >>> with some political cover for the controversies that are certain to be >>> triggered by some of the plan's recommendations." >>> >>> The FCC chairman and his staff have spent the better part of a year >>> preparing a major report while keeping his colleagues largely in the >>> dark. >>> What happened to the Obama Administration's promise to be open and >>> transparent? >>> >>> Copyright 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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