 shankargallery says: FreePress.net sent out this alert yesterday Imagine having a fast connection to an open Internet wherever you go, without needing a telephone wire or cable modem. The FCC could make this happen. Instead they’re on the verge of turning over our public Internet airwaves to the same giant phone and cable companies that control high-speed access for more than 96 percent of American users. Don’t let the FCC give away our wireless Internet to these price-gouging giants. We need to use these public airwaves to connect more Americans to an open, neutral and affordable Internet. And this is what I appended at the beginning of the comment field: The idea of using the existing TV spectrum for widely available broadband is tremendously exciting. As a business owner, I could see that this might spark a wave of creative entrepreneurship like the original dotcom boom a decade ago, and create useful technologies we can only dream of currently. Open access is the way to d Japan tried this for about a year. It was a fiasco they got rid of it. I know this clip is from a business perspective, but I cannot imagine a clear distinction between the economic and the political implications.The way the next generation (two removed from the baby boomers) will have their imaginations fired by the internet, and it's capacity to provide information across a wide range of interface, is creating a wave of public sentiment, that will become unprecedented and unstoppable. The internet provides a degree of freedom that has never been offered before. People will not give up such a freedom of their own free will, and they will be inventive enough to design alternatives. The government fears the internet, because they can fool a population of isolate... |
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