[Blue Ink]

There is a finite amount of signal room. It is a scarce commodity. And it doesn’t “belong” to comcast or verizon. It belongs to me. And you.

The original broadcast networks still make a boatload of money by NOT charging people for what belongs to us. They’re allowed to sell ads, not access. Nobody has a problem with the FCC preventing CBS from charging anyone with an antenna for using its signal.

How is oversight of the net companies any different? They DON’T OWN the broadband. They are renters. The people are the landlords.

The price of using what belongs to the people, whether it’s the tunnel under your street or the water pipes leading to your house, or the broadband, is oversight by the owners — the people of the United States.

[Ray76]

They most certainly do own their networks.

[Dr. Sivana]

There is a finite amount of signal room. It is a scarce commodity

Unlike broadcast signals, there are multiple ways to deliver the content making the spectrum much more complex than over the air radio and television. there is NO "the broadband". There are many broadbands. For the record, it IS permissible to scramble an over the air signal for television and charge to descramble, Channel 18 in Hartford did this and Wometco Home Theatre did this for years in NYC. There is plenty of regulation of the Internet signal access at infrastructure level already. It seems that every time someone comes with a new way to se bandwidth, the means to providefor that want matetializes. I do NOT believe that Netflix (1/3 of bandwidth) is a civil right. There is plenty of bandwidth for the essential uses of the Internet. The folks who want to pay more for gaming and streaming video provide the in eti e to build a faster Internet for all of us. The folks who grab their Internet from (for instance) a foreign run satellite really don't owe the government directly for any of it.

[lepton]

Sophistry...it *sounds* like thinking.

Your comments on this manner are technically and philosophically...peculiar.

“..because P sounds like T which stands for ‘trouble’.”

Let’s just start with the Internet not being broadcast. That’s just your ‘last mile’...sometimes. It gets sillier from there.

[Cboldt]

-- There is a finite amount of signal room. --

There is a finite number of atoms in the universe too.

The finite signal room of broadcast does not have any analogy in the practically unlimited signal room of cable. Need more signal room? add more cables. That is not possible with broadcast, where useful transmission frequencies in open air represent a real limit on data capacity.