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[ NNSquad ] Re: Ohh. Scary! Pundits proclaim doom if FCC passes Net Neutrality rules
"AT&T was quick to denounce the plan as a "bait and switch," after it paid
2.5 billion dollars last year to snap up a piece of the 700- MHz spectrum."
Was this a prudent business decision? Shouldn't ATT's shareholders be more
worried about SBC (who bought ATT) continuing original ATT's policy of
spending big bucks for little, if anything, in return? Just remember the
Excite@Home debacle when they blamed users for abusing their network when in
reality they had repurposed a distribution network as a consumer network.
It should be obvious that the idea of creating a separate network for each
purpose doesn't make sense. If ATT doesn't understand this they should be
trusted with network management. If they do but now are crying unfair we
should simply not trust them. - Do I need to (again) explain why?
[ Perhaps a more interesting question: Were these enormous prices
being paid for spectrum predicated on a assumption/belief/fantasy
that Big Telecom oligarchists would perpetually be able to
monetize a scarce resource (spectrum) using sensibilities similar
to those of the lords of medieval fiefdoms? Business conditions
change, political winds change, and sometimes people even wake up
to the fact that a critical resource for the public -- the
Internet -- no longer can be ethically treated as an unlimited,
unregulated piggy-bank for the giant, dominant ISPs.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Lauren Weinstein
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:45 AM
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Ohh. Scary! Pundits proclaim doom if FCC passes Net
Neutrality rules
Ohh. Scary! Pundits proclaim doom if FCC passes Net Neutrality rules
http://bit.ly/12ohj6 (Earth Times)
--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator