October 29, 2006

Net Neutrality 10-29-2006

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 5:40 am

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I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

The Truth Behind America’s Digital Decline

With every passing month, the United States falls further behind the global leaders in broadband Internet access thanks to a combination of market and policy failures. Our markets lack the competition to bring lower prices, higher speeds, and universal access. Our policies lack the imagination and potency to create real change. Meanwhile, Americans pay more money for less service than a dozen other nations. A third of U.S households are still stuck with dial-up, and another third lack Internet access of any kind. Our broadband problem is becoming a crisis.

Yet major telecommunications legislation now moving through Congress lacks a comprehensive vision for how to bring multiple competitive broadband providers to each market offering truly high-capacity connections at affordable prices.

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To make matters worse, the Federal Communications Commission seems content to ignore the broadband problem and pretend we are moving forward. While the FCC is crowing about an uptick in 1 megabit per second (Mbps) DSL connections, Japanese consumers are paying the same price for 100 Mbps. How long can we afford to be 100 times slower than the rest of the world?

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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2 Comments to “Net Neutrality 10-29-2006”

  1. October 30th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
    HandsOff43 said

    Hi Liz,

    The FCC report on U.S. broadband competition is evidence that broadband competition is increasing and vibrant.
    http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-266596A1.pdf

    However, the US is lagging behind other countries when it comes to our internet infrastructure but what net neutrality advocates don’t understand is that these regulations will only stifle the upgrades that are needed to keep up with other countries. And this is also the case with regard to municipal WiFi. Net neutrality regulations will assuredly slam the breaks on cities and towns that are trying to get their wireless up and running.

  2. October 30th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Net neutrality regulations will assuredly slam the breaks on cities and towns that are trying to get their wireless up and running.

    You just made that up.

    How could you possibly know that?

    The communication service laws in place previously slammed no breaks — municipal communication has been well and good all through the 20th century — neutrality regulations have already been in place without a problem.

    PS. We’re wondering whether you were paid for the comment you wrote?

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