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Re: FCC Majority Behind Open Access
I've known AT&T to be self-serving megalomaniacal monopolists who have leveraged their monopoly, now duopoly, position to the detriment of consumers, shareholders, and the innovations of new technology alike. They are, almost single-handedly, responsible for the sorry state of telecom in the U.S. today. They have lied, cheated and bribed lobbied their way to dominance at the expense, and to the detriment, of the public they were paid to serve. If they weren't already rigging the auction with the complicity of the FCC, Google wouldn't have to publicize the issue.
If Google were trying to rig the auction so that it could lock up the 700MHz spectrum in the way AT&T and Verizon intend to do, I would rail against them as well. I'm tired of seeing the public weal being kicked in the ass by megopolies like AT&T/Verizon with the active assistance of regulatory bodies created to protect the public, but who are increasingly the handmaidens of the industries which they are obliged to regulate.
I don't trust AT&T, period. There is ample historical and contemporary basis for my apprehension. Do you think it was easy to bust Ma Bell into pieces the first time around? Do you think the reasons for doing so were trivial?
You're either very young, or very ignorant, to not have a grasp of the enormity of Ma Bell's transgressions against the citizenry of this country in terms of their business practices, as well as their complicity in the illegal actions taken by the Bush "Justice" Department in spying on all U.S. customers, and users of their networks. While unwarranted, illegal surveillance may not be at issue in terms of the auction, it certainly speaks to the trustworthiness of the entity most likely to warp/distort/nullify the fairness of the auction, and the operational function of the spectrum at issue, in ways solely subservient to their unbounded greed, the public interest be damned. |
