Huh? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r15256298 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:04:07 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:04:07 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15258170 calvoiper : Yeah, but let's keep in mind that the destruction of the Telecom Act of '96 started with Clinton forcing Reed Hundt out of the FCC chair and replacing him with Kennard, who quickly put the brakes on pro-competitive enforcement and unbundling activities.

(This comment is not meant to start another UNE vs. non-UNE debate, but to point out that if you agree with Lessig here, as I do, that it wasn't Bush who turned us off the proper course. He just reinforced Clinton's push in the wrong direction.)

If you don't believe me, you should review Reed Hundt's book, You Say You Want a Revolution : A Story of Information Age Politics.

calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15258170 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:07:11 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15257559 tapeloop : Congrats ronpin! You just got bashed from both the left and right sides of the political spectrum! Welcome to BBR! :D
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Copyright infringement is illegal. Murder is illegal. Therefore, file sharing is murder.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15257559 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:38:34 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256976 ronpin : Wrong -- oh so very wrong...(did you even read what I said?)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256976 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:21:53 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256932 rit56 : ha ha ha a reference to Clinton.... typical Republican who can't take responsibility for this administrations failures. thanks for the laugh this morning.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256932 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:16:26 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256892 nasadude :
said by R4M0N See Profile :

Everything Goes back to Bush, doesn't it?
no, he's just one in a long line of presidents that didn't really give a sh1t about the internet, because he doesn't use and doesn't really understand what it is.

I must say however, if he thinks he can just promise that everyone will have broadband by 2007, he better demand that something different be done than is going on now.

My guess is that the U.S. is even worse off than it seems, because the FCC defines broadband as "at least 200kbits/sec, both ways". By any stretch of the imagination, this is a ludacrous definition of broadband in the year 2006.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256892 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:10:51 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256348 ronpin : Actually it was the Clinton Admin (with a Republican Congress) that passed the Telecom Act of 1996. The only good thing I can say about the Bush Admin is that the Telecom Act was essentially dismantled during his tenure. I do fear the next Telecom Act will reflect the Republican incest with big business -- the opposite extreme of the 1996 act.
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"...lacking a [U.S.] military option, that leaves only a diplomatic option..."(Andrea Mitchell CNBC's Hardball 1/12/06 on Iran nuke buildup)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256348 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:37:42 EDT Re: Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256331 R4M0N : Everything Goes back to Bush, doesn't it?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256331 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:33:04 EDT Huh? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256298 ronpin : The Telecom Act of 1996 UNE-P rules were clearly a disincentive for the private sector to build fiber FTTP infrastructure -- only to be shared with the competition (I'm no *&^% conservative either :) )

Yeah it'd be nice if governments were smart enough to invest in FTTP infrastructure (like France, Japan and Korea) -- but by the time our few muni's "got-it" it was too late and their voters were still to dumb to get-it. Our losing the UNE-P rules allowed Verizon to build FiOS and SBC to start LightSpeed. I'll take it.

'Funny how our Federal Gov. has $500 billion to waste on a needless "war of choice" (and errors)-- but $200 billion to fiber-up the last mile in America is "unthinkable" :(
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"...lacking a [U.S.] military option, that leaves only a diplomatic option..."(Andrea Mitchell CNBC's Hardball 1/12/06 on Iran nuke buildup)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15256298 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:27:12 EDT