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Article #222Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: John Higdon
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:42
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:42
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In article <ho0fot$ikt$1@news.eternal-september.org>, "John Richards" <JR@blackhole.invalid> wrote: > Government interference through various subsidies hides the true cost of > providing such service. It boils down to a willingness by everyone to pay > higher taxes in order to get more cradle-to-grave services. Most Americans > are unwilling to pay higher taxes. We have too much of the Internet in this country handled by huge corporations that are also content providers. They have a vested interest in keeping consumer Internet access crippled. After all, they don't want people streaming in program material from competing content providers over *their* wires, as David Whitaker, former CEO of SBC put it. It may be that "government interference" may be the only way we get anything at all at any kind of affordable price to the user. I'm not putting a lot of faith in Comcast or AT&T. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
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