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story category Frontline to Verizon: Bring it On
Challenges telco to wireless broadband spectrum debate
(old news - 09:21AM Monday Jul 02 2007)
tags: fcc · business · wireless
Frontline, one of several outfits eager to build a national wireless emergency broadband network with 700 MHz spectrum, has challenged Verizon to debate before the FCC. Frontline is annoyed by Verizon's traditional debate approach, which is paying think tanks and other PR groups to fight for them on behalf of "consumers." Former FCC chief Reed Hundt took notice of the new PR effort and fired back:
"Now that Verizon is hiring teams of surrogates to attack Frontline, we have to recognize Frontline is taken seriously by the most powerful telephone companies in the world. We invite Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon's CEO, to meet in Washington any one of Frontline's partners to debate the merits of Frontline's plan to build a national public-safety network versus Verizon's plan."
More detail on Frontline's plan over at their website.

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LiamJunket
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Hundt's isn't answering the questions raised by study

»www.freedomworks.org/informed/is···rontline

No matter who paid for the study, it has made many valid points that Frontline has refused to answer. And Reed Hundt(a Frontline employee) has done nothing to answer those questions. All he has done is trot out the worn out argument that his opponent(a major telco) is against it - so therefore it must be a good plan.
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permalink · 2007-07-02 10:04:19 · Print · Reply to this

Neyland85

join:2003-02-04
North Augusta, SC

Re: Hundt's isn't answering the questions raised by study

How do we know this was paid for by Verizon? Just because a link on this website indicating that it was doesn't make it so...
permalink · 2007-07-02 13:43:57 · Reply to this
Zoder

join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL

Re: Hundt's isn't answering the questions raised by study

First page of the study.

quote:
BY JEFFREY A. EISENACH, PH.D. †

†Chairman, Criterion Economics and Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Law School. The
author expresses thanks to Joseph Kraemer for helpful suggestions, but takes full responsibility for any errors or omissions. Support for this paper was provided by Verizon Communications. The opinions expressed are my own.
permalink · 2007-07-02 17:35:25 · Reply to this
Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL

"Lower taxes, less government, more freedom" my @$$

said by LiamJunket See Profile :

No matter who paid for the study, it has made many valid points...
No, it hasn't. In fact its few claims are false and/or misleading.

...that Frontline has refused to answer.
Those questions are nobody's business but Frontline's. What grounds do you have to claim that "Hundt's [sic] isn't answering the questions raised by (the) study"? And why do you feel that Frontline has any obligation to Verizon's hired guns?
permalink · 2007-07-02 15:38:41 · Print · Reply to this

Michieru2
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This idea gives a bad taste in my mouth, something smells rotten and I don't like it.
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permalink · 2007-07-02 10:35:30 · Reply to this
AMDonUT2004

join:2006-06-12
Bedford, VA

this could work

if they don't like each other, let them fight in jello and put it on live tv
permalink · 2007-07-02 10:55:10 · Reply to this

Ream0

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WOW! midget wrestling!

...Verizon's got a plan! Screw the consumer any way you can!

With 20% broadband penetration,shouldn't they work on their primary network rather than build a emergency broadband network? I think their funding this with the dubious $2.00/month forced long distance fee.

I wish someone would jamb a phone pole up Seidenberg's ass!

permalink · 2007-07-02 13:00:08 · Reply to this
Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL

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Why should Verizon, an incumbent telco with no overt plans to suddenly abandon its wire & fiber plant and throw all of its eggs into the wireless broadband basket, have any say in what any wireless broadband company proposes to do? The only possible motive that Verizon could have is anti-competitive and not in the public interest. Why is this even being reported as news?
permalink · 2007-07-02 15:56:01 · Reply to this
ltjordan

join:2001-12-02
Hyattsville, MD

Re: Ivan debating.

I'm sure Ivan is going to put that at the top of his "to-do" list.
permalink · 2007-07-02 20:03:00 · Reply to this
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