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Karl Bode
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Re: To far behind already?

I don't think it would be that hard, but it would require steps that share-holders and free-market fans wouldn't like.

That would include government involvement in the infrastructure process, including setting deployment water-marks (and actually enforcing them), correcting the corruption in the USF system and perhaps expanding its function (not just eliminating it), and not kowtowing to telco & cable lobbyists at every turn.

None of that will ever happen, as the political system now serves the will of the largest incumbents, not the public.


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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

I don't think it would be that hard, but it would require steps that share-holders and free-market fans wouldn't like.

That would include government involvement in the infrastructure process, including setting deployment water-marks (and actually enforcing them), correcting the corruption in the USF system and perhaps expanding its function (not just eliminating it), and not cow-towing to telco & cable lobbyists at every turn.

None of that will ever happen, as the political system now serves the will of the largest incumbents, not the public.
Well said.


Karl Bode
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Also putting a technologist at the head of the FCC instead of an empty-headed think-tank deregulatory drone would be a good move as well.

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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

None of that will ever happen, as the political system now serves the will of the largest incumbents, not the public.
It has for many years, as long as the 'incumbents' keep paying.....And as Clinton found out, foreign countries pay too for special favors.
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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

Also putting a technologist at the head of the FCC instead of an empty-headed think-tank deregulatory drone would be a good move as well.
I agree with everything you just said but I'm sure you also know that these things never gonna happen - unless we disband this rotten FCC and forget it forever. We need a completely different communication market approach.

Sorry, we tried this - during last decades it didn't work out, by now it's completely ridden by corruption. Kill it.


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i'm not sure about total disassemble #5..

But Serious Chances need to be made. I can agree to that.
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jimbo2150

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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

...would include government involvement...
Good luck.

Our current government could't give a $#*$ about the 'people'. As long as businesses are putting the green where the politician's dog-dishes are, they will obediently play to the corporations' demands.

At this point in the game the only ones helping the people are themselves. By mass protests (already seen), billions of letters and petitions (already signed), and violent gatherings (still contained to Paris, but Im sure its on the way).

I don't know about you, but I think we need a change of adminstration. One that will not pat itself on the back for a job well done (or not done as the case may be).
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idjk

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It is not just the FCC -try to place fiber in the ground and you have all local governments plus the EPA in your pocket- then the are the tree huggers 'who sometime are right' so it is hard to compare USA with third world or not where there are less hoops to jump thru.
Also USA got in this early so it is a replacement not new which means you pay for it twice.
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