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

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Dick,

I am curious who do you think is going to pay for who ever it is to 
build a system to you out in the desert?

That is a trade off for moving out in the boon docks.  When we moved to 
Colorado we had party lines.  We lived in Parker and that was considered 
at the time WAY out there.

My office is in Castle Rock, CO a town of 30k plus.  We have one 
provider for internet.  Century link.  I think it is up to 9mb now DSL.  
Xfininity is working on bringing their cable down the road. Project to 
take up to 9 months.  I have no clue how they are paying for it.

While you may get your internet, what you have to pay for it might make 
you ill.

Let us not forget all the new add on taxes and fees that will be paying 
because of all these regulations and the expense that the providers are 
going to have to pay to stay within the regulations. Who is going to 
police this?  Oh the FCC needs to hire more staff. Who pays for that?  
The tax payer.  More taxes.

I think we were just scared of the big ole FCC back in the day.  I don't 
think they were much different, we just got smarter.

There is no pot of gold.  The money comes from somebody.

Mike W0MU

On 2/26/2015 10:51 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> Unless you are a customer out in the Desert, then you are stuck with 
> DSL and streaming
> movies that look like the ones on my 1953 Admiral back in the B&W days.
>
> If all this means I get 100 MB downloads in my lifetime, I am all for it.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On 2/26/2015 7:47 PM, Scott Manthe wrote:
>> Tony,
>> All of Netflix's customers are the beneficiary of this ruling, as 
>> well as anyone who uses Youtube, Hulu or any other streaming service. 
>> Netflix uses the most bandwidth because they have the most customers. 
>> It isn't only the companies  like these that benefit, it's their 
>> customers. The Internet doesn't exist as some libertarian fantasy 
>> world. The only ones that were going to benefit from from being able 
>> to turn the hose off and on were the one's who own the hose, not the 
>> one's who use it. Net neutrality is not a bad thing.
>>
>> 73,
>> Scott, N9AA
>>
>>
>> On 2/26/15 8:57 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...internet is a national resource. No one should be able to "corner"
>>>> it....
>>>> ==========
>>>   Unfortunately, so-called "neutrality" means that one company, 
>>> Netflix, can
>>> corner it without paying for it. Netflix accounts for up to 35% of 
>>> internet
>>> traffic, and is really the one and only beneficiary of this ruling.
>>> Everybody else is subsidizing them. In any event, I'm just glad I'm 
>>> not a
>>> regulator.
>>>
>>> Tony KT0NY
>>>
>>
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