Federal Cartel Commission
I have some more lawn clippings to share via Ars Technica
More astroturfing on net neutrality issue. Broadband Reports calls out American Consumer Institute a public interest group almost one step removed from Bell Atlantic, for proferring advice on what 'consumers' think .
Network neutrality - Wikipedia is a confusing enough issue,
Traffic shaping - Wikipedia, without extra helpings of fear uncertaintly and doubt. I'm not even exactly sure where I line up on net neutrality. Broadly my response is: there is already television. Thorougly gate kept and owned; broadcast, narrowcast and encabled. And there is radio before it which is like television but without pictures. Cellular telephones bear a resembalance of sorts to the telephone network that preceded it, and even interacts with it! There was nothing like Gopher or the WW Web when it started and I do not wish for the protocols, rules and laws which make it all up, to be rejiggered just so that the various parts of the telecommunication industry can have another version of telephone and television, captured and controlled (with no technological innovation being allowed to interfer with existing arragements and modes of profit). Particularly if this happens at the expense of what was unique. The bigger item in the news was the on then off DSL fee
FCC upset over Verizon, BellSouth fees; expect formal inquiries. Verizon and Bell South decided the lost revenue of the old Universal Service Fund (USF) was too much to bear so the announced as if in tandem new charges to replace it. This struck some as being a classic, textbook, even an artfully executed example of cartel behavior
Net Neutrality Platitudes from the FTC | TPMCafe. Causing even the FCC chair to roll his eyes (but apparently not the FTC). Both Bell Atlantic and Verizon have now decided to rethink this
Verizon Drops DSL Fee After FCC Query. The FCC is in the midst right now of organizing the sale of $14 billion dollars worth electromagnetic spectrum
FCC spectrum auction moves to higher gear. Its not the first of these nor will it be the last. Some have played this game before
NextWave Telecommunications Inc. Returns. I guess in a highly abstract technical sense they are acting as agents of the American people when they do this. Though I'm not sure everyone sees it this way
Down To Business: FCC Rakes In More Billions, But At What Cost? - Hardware News by InformationWeek. I saw another book coming into the library recently, Dedicated to the proposition that monopolys are not really harmfully to the market or the economy. Monopolys duopolys and oligopys fit the modern mercantile class like a comfortable old sweater. They snap their fingers and 100 nimrod lapdogs from the institutes leap to their feet spin their theory, against which mere rationality and logic measures itself, onto its head and rush such books into print.
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