Alakar
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join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI
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| A national broadband strategy
I think he's correct about a national broadband strategy, we have none. Thats the first thing we need to start with. Set some goals, and then figure out how to achieve them.
He loses some credibility with this self serving remark though;
Hundt has complained that the line-sharing system he implemented in the 90's worked well in France to bring about competition (and $40 IPTV & broadband bundles), but failed here due to shoddy implementation and enforcement (and because incumbents wanted it to).
The '96 Telecom Act was a joke. It had to have been some of the most poorly written legislation ever produced, and to try to say that "shoddy implementation and enforcement" are what caused it to fail is laughable. It failed because it had tons of holes in it, letting the ILEC's, CLEC's and the government get away with stuff that undermined it.
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| said by Alakar  :The '96 Telecom Act was a joke. It had to have been some of the most poorly written legislation ever produced, and to try to say that "shoddy implementation and enforcement" are what caused it to fail is laughable. It failed because it had tons of holes in it, letting the ILEC's, CLEC's and the government get away with stuff that undermined it. I don't know. After that act was passed I was able to reduce within 2 yrs the telecomm budget for the company I worked for from $20 million/yr down to $8 million/yr and within 4 yrs it was down to $6 million/yr. And all because it deregulated long distance charges.
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