| A couple of arguments that need to be addressed... Illegitimate argument 1: All companies are greedy and,leap in logic, therefore all companies are equally dedicated to subverting the openness of the internet.
All companies want to make money, but some companies are making money in ways that are consonant with an open and neutral internet and some are making money in ways that drive them to be constantly at war with an open net.
Illegitimate argument 2: Companies, like google, that want an open internet should have to be in the isp and infrastructure business to make it happen.
Google isn't an isp and has never been interested in being an isp. This doesn't mean that they are leeching off anyone's network, any more than any other business that is not an isp but that uses the internet to facilitate business is a leech. Everyone but the incumbents benefit from an open internet, just as we all benefit from an open highway infrastructure that is available for use by everyone. There is no reason why a company that wants to transport product should have to build its own highway system or "shut its mouth", nor should all these companies be under any obligation to build out communications infrastructure. There are companies that are already in that business and there is no contradiction between wanting to maintain the openness of that infrastructure and not wanting to be in the infrastructure business oneself.
BTW google is putting money into clearwire and is supporting this white space push. It is too early to know how these things will progress or how much money google is willing to put into these developments. For all we know google might be prepared to put major money behind these things if they show promise. Right now it isn't lack of money that is hindering white space development. It is government. |
| said by asdfdfdfdfdfdf :
For all we know google might be prepared to put major money behind these things if they show promise. Right now it isn't lack of money that is hindering white space development. It is government.
Google had the opportunity to put its money where its mouth is by bidding seriously on the 700 Mhz spectrum that was just auctioned off. That was dedicated spectrum that could have been used to provide internet access, and had much more promise than some phantom white-space device that can't even pass the current rudimentary FCC testing. |
