Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Only the telcos know?
At F2C: Freedom to Connect in April, Mike Powell said that we should be careful about playing the regulatory game, because the telcos were professionals and they'd take us to the cleaners. Now the [Portland] Oregonian says, "Congress simply isn't wise enough or prescient enough to make the right choices." I guess we should simply let the telcos decide, right?
Wrong. The telcos changed the law last summer by dint of a decade of effort in the courts and the FCC. There used to be network neutrality, and now there isn't. It is a lie to say that Network Neutrality is a new law. It is the same old law that let the Internet become the success it is today.
Wrong. The telcos changed the law last summer by dint of a decade of effort in the courts and the FCC. There used to be network neutrality, and now there isn't. It is a lie to say that Network Neutrality is a new law. It is the same old law that let the Internet become the success it is today.
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Comments:
David, I agree the ILECs have pulled a quick one on us, but if you spend the next decade fighting over a series of telco regulation problems like this (and there will be a series!), we won't be discussing the regulatory environment that would actually make sense for the Internet age. There's a first pass at a longer term objective here:
http://blogs.nmss.com/communications/2006/05/broadband_acces.html
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