That was the camel's nose in the tent, so to speak. NN and content regulation is merely some more of the camel through the door and in the tent with you.
Rate or price controls, coverage requirements, bandwidth specifications, and so on would be the rest of the camel in the tent. At that point, you don't control your own network, prices, or service. You merely manage a utility that's either going to be the surviving monopoly or go under, as the regulators continue to raise your costs by demanding more from you, while regulating your revenues. If you don't think they'll do that, please research "obamacare" where in a short period of time, insurers are allowed to: Sign people up. They will not be able to set their own rates, design their own product, or benefit from efficient operations - as required ratio of incoming to outgoing dollars is specified. I'll bet some of you even thought it was a good idea at the time, as long as it's not YOUR business. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: RickG Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:58 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Flexible rules promised for wireless Yes, by the fact that a private person doing business is forced to report anything to the government is wrong. It breaks the trues spirit of capitalism & freedom that this country was founded upon. Sorry to sound extreme but what will they force us to do next? On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> wrote: I don't think form 477 has anything to do with breaking anything. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 12/22/2010 12:44 AM, RickG wrote: The first step to breaking the net was form 477. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM, MDK <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> wrote: The whole problem was creating monopolies in the first place, and then pretending you can "fix" what you broke by half-baked notions of government created markets... There is NOTHING broke about 'internet' because it hasn't been regulated. Your issue is nothing but a complaint about the results of what should never have been done in the first place. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Fred Goldstein" <fgoldst...@ionary.com> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 6:56 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Flexible rules promised for wireless > Well, no, what IS PROFOUNDLY BROKEN is that the ILECs are no longer > required to be common carriers. They built their network using > common carrier privileges. They got their market share using common > carrier privileges. And then they turned around and got their > common carrier obligations lifted by the profoundly corrupt > Cheney-Rove FCC. So now they control the content on their wires, and > you can't lease them. That's just wrong. And the Genachowski FCC > isn't doing squat about that, though they absolutely have the power > to do so. We do need a national common carrier utility. There is a > clear distinction between carriage and content. ISPs are content, not > carriage. And WISPs are self-provisioned ISPs who deliver content > over unlicensed facilities without using a carrier, and without being one. > > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! 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