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Re: Policy News
- From: Justin M. Streiner
- Date: Wed Nov 18 09:54:08 2009
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jerry Dixon wrote:
The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday will lay out the case for
expanding broadband Internet service, outlining current obstacles to making
it widely available. The agency is considering whether to force Internet
providers to share their networks with rivals and raise fees charged on
consumer phone bills to pay for the broader access."
The telcos are asking for more taxpayer-funded goodie--er... incentives
to expand broadband coverage. Given that the incentives (entry into
additional markets, additional fees tacked onto customer bills,
reduction/elimination of various other regulatory hurdles, etc) that have
been handed to them over the past 10+ years have largely failed to
produce that expanded coverage and improved service, doing more of the
same is pretty much throwing good money after bad.
jms
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