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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY
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3 edits | Now that BPL......
Is a rotting carcass I guess this will be the next stupidity the FCC will get into. All that is happening is these free for the masses types are just trying to set up another ridiculously expensive poorly run government entitlement the rest of us will be forced to pay for. I see this can of worms getting out of hand. Free Wifi, but wait the poor don't have computers, so now added into lines for government cheese, wiil be hand outs of notebook computers.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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| You should spend some time actually looking into the proposal.
This isn't a government run operation. It is privately run. It isn't paid for by the government. There are conditions attached to the spectrum(build out requirements and 25% of bandwidth allocated to the free service (a for pay service would be possible with the rest) and there would be 5% of gross revenue paid to the treasury, similar to the way broadcast television works.
If it fails the taxpayer is not going to be paying to build out the network. The taxpayer is not going to be paying anything to build out the network at any point. The government is not funding the build out of the network. The government is setting conditions for the auction. Beyond this private organizations will be building and running the network, just as for other auctions.
Conservatives don't like it because they want all spectrum auctioned off to the highest bidder without any conditions, which favors only the incumbents, a policy they call letting the free market decide. If we really want the free market deciding it why does the government auction this off in the first place, we should simply abolish all government spectrum control and rules and let the market determine how the various interests will be balanced.
We have had a great deal of other prime spectrum auctioned off to the highest bidder without conditions. This spectrum is taking a different approach. Opponents don't want a different approach used for ANY spectrum, not surprising since the main approach we have been using favors them immensely. |
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