 ddparduePremium join:2007-01-07 Hattiesburg, MS | DC43 is right Martin is proposing CarterPhone rules. No locking or blocking devices to your own network. Phone portability across networks, instead of having to buy a new phone everytime you change carriers, or at least use a new phone which they may "give" you. Open access, such as proposed by Google's CEO and many consumer groups, would mandate that whoever won the auction would have to make spectrum available to competitors at reasonable market prices. Being a local WISP provider, I (and 3000+ local WISPs across America) would love to see this pass. It would enable us to offer broadband in much larger rural areas than is possible now using unlicensed bandwidth. Or at least make it more economical, enabling us to compete with the "BIG 4" in the cities also, and enable us to afford to expand our networks in rural areas. |