Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points in

Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18751505 en Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:41:14 EDT Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:41:14 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18776422 Ahrenl : Of course it works both ways.. What does the OECD have to gain again? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18776422 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:25 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757990 Karl Bode : Personally, I think that any consumer who can't see that a free market and deregulation are the path to the holy land should probably be shaved and sterilized. I say this only among friends who understand that we can only find true peace and happiness through a total lack of accountability and the death of humanism.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757990 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:54:46 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757959 TScheisskopf : And unreasonable. They just refuse to accept that we now live in The Age of The Goddess Ayn Rand, where giants walk the earth and refuse to be bound by the petty laws, made by jealous lessers, passed to fetter them from attaining their true greatness and just rewards. They are our New Nobility, destined to greatness by God.

It is the responsibility of everyone to happily accept every baseless increase in their bills, every announcement of executive pay increases and packages that soar beyond the astronomical, every degraded service and every customer support depredation. For verily, they benefit giants and we are fortunate to breathe the same air as them.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757959 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:49:48 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757906 Karl Bode : Well and their unwillingness to at least negotiate being screwed just strikes me as really, really stubborn.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757906 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:42:31 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757884 TScheisskopf : You have a point. After all, how dare they protect their cloacal vents from their betters and their whims?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757884 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:37:21 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757820 Karl Bode : I've always found consumers were very unreasonable with their constant demand to not be screwed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18757820 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:25:24 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751587 TScheisskopf : "Me, me, me"?

Well, it certainly beats the alternative, which is a chronic case of being bent over with one's pants around one's ankles.

You might also take notice of the fact that few of the benefits of the "economies of scale" that all these mergers and acquisitions in the telecom and cable industries ever seem to filter down to the lumpen proletariat, whom, you must admit, pays the bills.

You need but ask any Comcast subscriber about that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751587 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:35 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751536 Alpine : Nor from the "Consumer Shills..." ie, the "me, me, me" crowd...

Adam]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751536 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:09:16 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751505 TScheisskopf : What makes me use the "Industry Shill" sobriquet? It's easy:

The copious amounts of whitewash the guy utilizes.

And I am sure the gentleman holds the opinions that he states. After all, shilling has been profitable to him. Can't really expect full spectrum candor, now can you?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751505 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:05:11 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751443 Alpine : That works both ways... Do you suppose we just take the world of those who have the most to gain if it's true?

Adam]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751443 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:56:31 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751431 Alpine : Ah yes, the old "industry shill" line. Childish and irrelevant, but still frequently used as a hedge against having to build a real argument.

It couldn't possibly be that one actually holds those opinions, right? It must be that the person is a mindless robot for the evil "industry."

Even if a person works for the industry, how does that make his opinion less valid? In fact working, you know, IN the industry might actually give them a better perspective not necessarily based in the "me, me, me, mine, mine, mine" of many anti-industry groups.

Adam]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18751431 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:55:00 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18746023 bmn :

said by TK Junk Mail

said by bmn

said by TK Junk Mail

:

The "Freshly appointed" adjective is supposed to make McDowell's points sound like they are coming from an inexperienced person. In fact, he took office more than a year ago.

One year of experience still isn't all that much...

At least 16 yrs experience in telecom. »www.fcc.gov/commissioners/mcdowe···phy.html

That's in telecom... That is not in the regulatory side of telecom. Two VASTLY different things.

That's like saying ten years of college makes of a professor with one year of experience more experienced. Doesn't work that way.

Also, it is also worth pointing out that the group whose research McDowell uses in his editorial is far from unbiased and scientific. A Quote from the Pheonix Group's site:

"Founded in 1998, the Phoenix Center’s mission is to maximize consumer welfare by promoting free markets, competition, and individual freedom and liberty."

Hardly a group whose research should be relied upon because, as a think-tank with an agenda, their research is already suspect to people who are properly trained.
--
Prove it...
Save the Internet Time (NTP) service, use the pool.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18746023 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:33:12 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745985 TScheisskopf : You forgot "siss boom bah". I hate it when that happens.

Oh, and while I was reading the "worthy's" bio, the phrase "industry shill" kept running through my head. Why is that?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745985 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:28:25 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745978 TK Junk Mail :
said by bmn :

said by TK Junk Mail :

The "Freshly appointed" adjective is supposed to make McDowell's points sound like they are coming from an inexperienced person. In fact, he took office more than a year ago.
One year of experience still isn't all that much...

At least 16 yrs experience in telecom. »www.fcc.gov/commissioners/mcdowe···phy.html
--
--
Internet News
My BLOG
My Web Page]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745978 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:27:11 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745966 bmn :
said by TK Junk Mail :

The "Freshly appointed" adjective is supposed to make McDowell's points sound like they are coming from an inexperienced person. In fact, he took office more than a year ago.
One year of experience still isn't all that much...

OECD methodology is flawed as he adequately demonstrates;
Michael McDowell has a statistics degree or has statistics/research design training ? Okay, so where is his study analyzing the problems ? I want numbers... Something that I can plug into all the stats formulas I learned and see if he really is right.
--
Prove it...
Save the Internet Time (NTP) service, use the pool.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745966 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:24:46 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745574 Ahrenl : Every statistical analysis has error. I've yet to see a better methodology than the OECD's for US broadband. Do you suppose we just take the word of those who have the most to lose if it's less than true? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745574 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:32:41 EDT Re: Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745447 Karl Bode : rah rah rah]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745447 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:16:50 EDT Experienced commissioner McDowell makes good points http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745384 TK Junk Mail : »FCC: What Broadband Problem?
Freshly appointed FCC Commissioner Michael McDowell
The "Freshly appointed" adjective is supposed to make McDowell's points sound like they are coming from an inexperienced person. In fact, he took office more than a year ago.
»www.fcc.gov/commissioners/mcdowell/
sworn in as FCC Commissioner on June 1, 2006.
»www.fcc.gov/commissioners/mcdowe···phy.html
Commissioner McDowell brings to the FCC approximately sixteen years of private sector experience in the communications industry. Immediately prior to joining the FCC, Commissioner McDowell was senior vice president and assistant general counsel for COMPTEL, an association representing competitive facilities-based telecommunications service providers, emerging VoIP providers, integrated communications companies, and their supplier partners, where he had responsibilities involving advocacy efforts before Congress, the White House and executive agencies. He has served on the North American Numbering Council (NANC) and on the board of directors of North American Numbering Plan Billing and Collection, Inc. (NBANC).

Prior to joining COMPTEL in February 1999, McDowell served as the executive vice president and general counsel of America's Carriers Telecommunications Association (ACTA), which merged with COMPTEL at that time.
As to the points in his editorial statement:
OECD methodology is flawed as he adequately demonstrates;
Gov't regulation usually causes problems(I admit this is a debatable position depending on your viewpoint);
Broadband growth will continue based on new video apps.

--
--
Internet News
My BLOG
My Web Page]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18745384 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:08:07 EDT