morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000
clubs: | they are making decisions
based upon lobbying money. |
|
rawgerz
In Debt we trust
Premium
join:2004-10-03
Grove City, PA | So why
doesn't just some independent group step up and assess the availability instead? |
|
batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs: | So?
So the great unwashed doesn't have competition, what to do? I know get the CLECs together and force them to run a competing network. |
|
TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Comcast
|  Cost of collection is the key & Congressional budgeting
»www.gao.gov/new.items/d06426.pdfFCC stated that gathering and analyzing additional data would be costly and burdensome. Yet without more complete and reliable data, FCC is unable to determine whether its deregulatory policies are achieving their goals. The GAO is great for identifying problems, but they almost always ignore the biggest problem - Congress itself. If Congress doesn't appropriate sufficient funds in the FCC budget to do these studies - THEY DON'T get done. So the biggest problem here isn't the FCC - it is Congress.
--
--
My BLOG
My Web Page |
|
nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
·Comcast
1 edit | FCC doesn't want good data
the FCC doesn't want good data; good data would show that their deregulatory policies are NOT resulting in competition, but rather the opposite (in most cases).
as long as they stay blissfully ignorant, they can pretend with a clear conscience that they are steering the right course. Unfortunately, the FCC is actually steering broadband towards the deadly rocks and is about to sink competition for a long, long time.
As for the cost associated with collecting good data, the FCC didn't say they didn't have the money, they said it would be costly - they don't want to spend more money. |
|
cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27 | Hey GAO!
Will ya look at the prices of T1, T3, Fractional and such compared to the same bandwidth consumers can get!
UnBULLeave-uh-bull! Oh the disparity...  |
|
Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
Road Runner
PC gaming GAMES
PC gaming Tech
| reply to nasadude
Re: FCC doesn't want good data
Look at the billions spent on the E-Rate program. Yet they have NO effective system in place to confirm that the money gets spent correctly. Thus, ample fraud and waste.
Same problem in Iraq, frankly.
I'm not so sure the problem is a lack of funds as much as it is cronyism, incompetence, and a desire to give donors political back-rubs at the cost of a comeptitive, rubust, and consumer friendly market... |
|
JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | reply to nasadude
ya,,,,,,,,,,a big conspiracy.....sarcasm |
|
PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to nasadude
said by nasadude  :the FCC doesn't want good data; good data would show that their deregulatory policies are NOT resulting in competition, but rather the opposite (in most cases). In particular, if they were to report that widespread broadband deployment is not progressing, then the 1996 Telecommunications Act would require them to "take immediate action". And that's the last thing the free-market-is-always-right ideologues on the Commission want to do.
So instead they make sure to use data that says everything is hunky-dory. |
|
JTRockville
Data Ho
Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
clubs: |  Impossible to assess rural USA? Ditto for urban USA!
Why did GAO halt criticism of FCC's data as useless in assessing just rural deployment? As far as I can tell, FCC's data are just as useless in assessing urban deployment. |
|
Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
Road Runner
PC gaming GAMES
PC gaming Tech
| reply to PDXPLT
Re: FCC doesn't want good data
Exactly.
The provision that requires "immediate action" is why you'll never see this data collection methodology improved.
deregulatory visioned think tank folks who want absolutely no oversight of corporations officially run the world. The idiocy of that is people with that viewpoint probably make up .2% of the population. |
|
karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq | The problem is, that 2% of the population controls 80% of the wealth. Thus, 2% = majority. |
|
hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to batterup
Re: So?
Actually thats not a bad idea. The CLECs should merge all together; Earthink/New Edge Networks, COVAD, and the large regional ISPs that resell services from the ILECs and build out their own network- just like cable.
But instead of staying private they could come up with a public IPO offering and become a publicly traded company since being privately held they'd run into money issues. They could even partner with many cities to build and run their FTTH/Wi-Fi Networks.
I think it would really work out. Let the ILECs have their copper and let the CLECs build out using their own FTTH or HFC networks (hy-bird fiber coax (cable company system). |
|
Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
clubs: | reply to Karl Bode
Re: FCC doesn't want good data
So this'll be another example of the fine democracy the US wants to export |
|
PsychoSy
join:2001-01-15
Monroe, MI
| reply to karlmarx
No, the problem is 98% of the US population that are wage-slaves refuse to throw off their shackles. Without labor, that 2% majority is nothing more than a lame duck from the same gene pool as the one currently inhabiting the White House. Wanna break their monotony? Bust the Corportocracy by leaving the workforce in droves. |
|
