Can someone here tell me what is going on without all the blame attached? This is a very poorly written article, sounding like a hit piece without much fact. I don’t want to dig through this pile to find the pony.
‘There are about 23 million rural Americans who lack basic fixed broadband service in their homes. They are angry at the FCC decision on delaying the deployment of broadband in their rural communities to prioritizes the needs of the well-heeled mobile industry.’
The FCC has no responsibility to deploy broadband service.
If providing such service is profitable, a private interest will step in and provide service.
What will be much more damaging Ins the abolishing of the “home studio” rule, meaning that no longer will radio stations be mandated to have a local broadcast presence to maintain the license. You will see the Giants like IHeart and others to close up local programming and just go with their syndicated programming. Much cheaper than hiring local tale t. Any university which continues to offer an R & T degree is stealing money from the student. Period.
Sounds like something written by a LOBBYIST.
I grew up in a small town in South Dakota and lived there for most of my adult life. My home town, population 800, has been provided broadband Internet for years by a company based in Wall, SD (home of the famous tourist spot Wall Drug) without any government meddling. There are places in South Dakota that are remote, have populations of less than 100 and do not have broadband service. However, neither do these places have Starbucks. Should the government tax the latte customers in New York City so that with massive subsidies the residents of Buffalo, SD can have a money losing Starbucks?
What I want to know is how many of the independents actually exist. There is all these theoretical impacted businesses that don’t actually exist because you have to have the capital to invest to develop these technologies that take 10 years to really pay off.
I trust nothing out of Townhall. They are Never Trumpets and hangers on. If there is a bad way to spin something they will
With all due respect, who writes this drivel? We had 28 solid, uninterrupted years of globalist, treasonous, America hating presidents prior to President Trump. We had a similarly minded Congress in that time frame, and they worked in concert to sabotage America's future.
Add to that the communists, perverts and reprobates throughout our educational system.
Add to that the commies, fags, perverts and psychos throughout entertainment.
Only a fool would ever think President Trump's objective to salvage America is not in danger.
Is there any sector of America that is sane?
Are Rural Americans still having to climb the Telephone Pole next to their House to make a Phone Call like Oliver and Lisa Douglas had to?
If the effing FCC wants to do something for all of us, they could actually shut down the telemarketers that have made our phones next to unusable. As it stands today, our VOIP home phone has a VM advising callers that we don’t answer it because the bulk of the inbound calls are from TM’s and that if they want to reach us, leave a message. And our iPhones have more blocked callers in their phone books than the numbers for people we call. We now see many TM calls that are made on “spoofed numbers” that don’t really exist.
If the effing FCC wants to do something for all of us, they could actually shut down the telemarketers that have made our phones and FAX machines next to unusable. As it stands today, our VOIP home phone has a VM advising callers that we don’t answer it because the bulk of the inbound calls are from TM’s and that if they want to reach us, leave a message. And our iPhones have more blocked callers in their phone books than the numbers for people we call. We now see many TM calls that are made on “spoofed numbers” that don’t really exist.
I followed up on a faxed “vacation offer,” and reached some Chingaso in Cancun who actually told me to “go f*ck myself, saying US telecom laws couldn’t do anything about what he was doing, but that AT&T was providing him with the DID lines he was using to “market” in this country. FCC/ATT, same bucket of crap!
WTH is a “rural” voter?
Looks like Town Hall AND MSM is coming out with a ‘hit piece’ every day, explaining why people who voted for PDT are a bunch of idiots and instead of broadbrushing they are isolating small groups so they can make it seem ‘worse’ than it is.
Starting with PDT and his (unhealthy) two scoops of ice cream - which managed to alienate the PRO & CON ice cream people, further driving the class wedge in place.
‘’NOT so quotable’’
PRESIDENT Trump was seen coming out of a stall in a rest room and praising the ‘toilet paper’ as being soft and the smartness of the use of air blowers to dry ones hands.
REBUT::: Toilet paper users are up in arms that PRESIDENT Trump endorsed brand X toilet paper, the manufacturers of other brands of toilet paper are saying that PRESIDENT Trump is unfairly targeting them, while the opponents of air dryers are claiming PRESIDENT Trump is costing jobs in the paper industry as the use of paper towels is down because of the air dryers AND the Republicans are demanding a fast track for some sort of air dryer to replace toilet paper.....
And the beat goes on....
(As to the paper towels, one of the ‘best’ things to do in a public rest area while driving through and using the facility, is to splash cold water on your face which now FORCES one to go out in public with a wet face.)
Come ON, HOP ABOARD, the band wagon is just loading up. <: <:
With broadband & cell phone service becoming, via regulation, a mere public utility, telecoms seek profits by other means as well as reducing “costs” by reducing competition. One of the ways of cutting off opposition has not been the traditional way of providing a service at less cost to consumers, but cutting off competitors access to spectrum with which to compete.
And, many of the most recent of the telecoms purchase of spectrum has NOT been to “build-out” but merely to stock up on their exclusive right to additional spectrum, that they then just sit on.
Now they want the rules to expand how long they can get away with just sitting on it. You can imagine, just like patents, they will be back to lobby that the law extend those squatters rights even more in the future.
For me, a Conservative position on the public sale of spectrum would require (a) plans for using that spectrum that would start to get implemented as soon as the spectrum was acquired, and (b) a three year time limit for those plans to commence. If the plans for using that spectrum didn’t commence within 36 months, the spectrum would go back into the lots available at the next auction and they’d get no more than that auction offered.
I do not think hoarding spectrum is in the public interest and is certainly counter-productive to true competition.
I with we could hijack a few of the bandwidth container ships that service the rest of the developed world.....
I’m ‘rural’ and have fiber optic to the house.
Buy all the ‘spectrum’ you want!!!
Ping.