[opendtv] Re: Commissioner O'Rielly comments at New Jersey Wireless Associaton
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:44:58 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Bert loves to talk about the special interests the "ex-parte majority"
at the FCC is protecting, but turns a blind eye on the fact that state
and local regulators are protecting these same special interests.
Well, while some of that might well be the case, the example the Commissioner
gave, local communities and their representatives concerned about the
aesthetics of forests of 5G cells, you can hardly dismiss that as unimportant.
I'd say, prove that it's not a problem (I think it won't be a problem), rather
than dismiss the concern out of hand. So, cherry-picking bad examples of
regulations is a moronic tactic. A waste of time.
It has to be a balance. I see scant evidence of appreciation of this, among the
"ex-parte majority." The mantra about "let the market decide" is ultimately
ridiculous, in *many* cases. You don't "let the market decide" on those high
tension lines getting planted in your back yard, or power distribution
standards to homes, or water main service to homes, electrical codes, building
codes, signage for roads, or on lighting standards or crash standards for cars
either. The mantra of deregulation is simplistic, vapid.
On an individual basis, monthly consumer data use is up 39 percent
since 2015 and over 50 percent of the American public has gone
completely wireless.
DID YOU READ THE LAST SENTENCE BERT?
Although I find that last sentence hard to believe, at least until fixed 5G
gets deployed, my bet is that your are not getting the trend lines here either.
My bet is that those who are all wireless are lightweight users of the
Internet, like those 90% of boomers who still watch TV either via the
traditional MVPD or via OTA (see the TV Technology article I posted today), and
aren't going to school, and aren't working from home. Yeah, they might well opt
for all wireless, even today. Digital illiterates, in short. Among the younger
kids? Those who are still living at home, and use the parents' broadband much
of the time? (Or drug dealers?)
The wireless percentage will likely keep rising, but only because of fixed 5G
in the coming years (and whether that will be competitive is still TBD). It
will go up when wireless is not as constrained as it is now. Not because the
majority are becoming luddites or digital illiterates. I too was hoping we
could go all wireless, after DSL, but HARDLY within the limits of what 4G can
offer. That's absurd.
Bert
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