[Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in Morse code!!

[dave]

Be careful what you wish for here. Keep in mind that once the 
entrenched providers get the regs they crave new services will grind 
to a halt. There will simply be too many barriers to entry. No new 
competitors will enter the field. At least not until the subsidies get 
so grossly unbalanced that the pot of gold is then worth the effort 
(see MCI vs AT&T).

The internet has grown rapidly *because* it is not regulated. Once it 
gets regulated then everything must go through regulatory approval. 
There will fewer and fewer new services.

A good example of this is 'high speed' - 64 kb - data service to the 
home. AT&T had the technology available in the early to mid 70's. 
Called it ISDN. But due to both internal politics and regulatory 
issues it was not rolled out until the early 90's. Much too late. The 
same thing will happen once the pols take over the internet. Nothing 
will get approved without them getting their cut.

As for those who say the the internet is a utility . . . well . . . 
your electric service is a utility. Does everyone pay the same 
electric bill no matter how much electricity they use? Broadband 
should be no different. Those who use the most should pay the most. 
There is no justification for taxing those who use little bandwidth to 
subsidize the heavy users. Let the heavy users pay their fair share 
and not burden those who are light users.

Just as in electricity, it is cheap and easy to measure the quantity 
consumed by each user. No justification whatsoever for charging one 
flat fee to all (none that is, other than "I want somebody else to pay 
for my bandwidth").

73 de dave
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On 2/26/15 10:30 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> On 2015-02-26 11:08 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>> Has anyone read the regulations that they kept hidden?  Do we really
>> know what is in them?
>
> Look at the last set of "Net Neutrality" regulations from the FCC -
> the ones that the industry had over turned on the grounds that the
> Commission did not have the authority to adopt them because "Broadband
> was not a utility".
>
> Seems to me the industry got what they wanted <G> forced the Commission
> to reclassify "Information Service" as "Communications Utility."  Voice
> and cable have been regulated as utilities for a very long time - who
> in their right mind would consider broadband data delivered on the very
> same networks to be anything other than a utility for the very reasons
> that voice and cable are utilities?
>
> 73,
>
>     ... Joe, W4TV
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