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ravital
Just Another Pesky Independent Nh Voter
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Merrimack, NH
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Re: Will Comcast and SBC deliver?
said by tschmidt  :
said by ravital :
In English: Regulation = Halting deployment. The only way this makes sense, is if it's propaganda.
As much as I'm in favor of Municipal Broadband and distrust the Baby Bell I don't see how you can call it propaganda.
I believe the propaganda (here it's really a polite way of saying "the lie") is the contention that poor us SBC are too poor to deploy what we promised if regulation doesn't stop strangling us, but we won't get out of the way and let someone else do it, because we LIKE the regulation when it suits us.
Let's be frank here. The FCC decision of last month or so was EXACTLY what the ILECs wanted 12 months ago before they changed six of their minds again, and now that they got what they wanted, they're going to hold their breath to get more candy. Personally, I hope they choke. Some pestholes in the 3rd world not too far from where U.S. Marines are fighting today get better boradband that most of the U.S. You have no idea how much it pains me to say it, but government regulation, even when ignorant and ineffective, is still a lesser evil, at least some of the time. I love capitalism, and I wish these companies were capitalists, right now they are anything but. | |
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said by ravital :
In English: Regulation = Halting deployment. The only way this makes sense, is if it's propaganda.
As much as I'm in favor of Municipal Broadband and distrust the Baby Bell I don't see how you can call it propaganda.
The Baby Bells have made it abundantly clear they are not going to deploy broadband unless they regain monopoly control of the First-mile network, even if it results in their demise at the hands of other broadband technologies. That is a simple statement of fact.
This is something regulators will have to factor into whatever decision they make. Do they eliminate UNE requirements and give the Baby Bells back their monopoly forming a duopoly between the Telcos and Cablecos?
Do they require UNE - locking the area into relatively low speed DSL, and preventing more distant residences from being able to obtain service?
That is the Hobson choice facing regulators. | |
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