On Jun 20, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Getting beyond mere banalities, it is PRECISELY for businesses such as these
that the Congress mandated telecom neutrality. There is something known as
"throwing out the baby with the bathwater." Non-neutral broadband won't do
anyone any good, other than the handful of giant telecoms these guys are in
bed with. The telecom service is supposed to be a common carrier, not playing
favorites. Every business using the telecoms depends on this, including these
farmers.
That is why the FCC is allocating up to $4.53 billion over ten years—to help
close this gap and bring 4G LTE to even more Americans
The incompetence and corruption of this FCC would not be so obvious, were it
not for the Chairman's support of telecom blocking and degrading practices.
Unbelievable.
I don't even know where to begin. This judge, as well as the corrupt FCC
Chairman and at least one Commissioner, seem to think it's perfectly okay for
ISPs to decide what content they will carry on their networks.
"I would posit that the entire foundation of how the government currently
views the 'communications' market - be it voice, video, or data - is outdated
and misguided."
Commissioner, you are the one outdated, misguided, and unwilling to do your
job.
Any FCC official who extolls the views of Judge Leon, who uttered the quote
above, can only be described as either incompetent or on the take. How far
will this go, O'Rielly? Okay, that was an example of AT&T potentially only
allowing Time Warner content on their own wires, and Judge Leon thinks that's
fine.
What about keeping outside content out? Is that fine too? Obviously, you
think it is, or you would understand the outrage at your overt corruption.
"Ironically, this very reasoning belies the similarly narrow mindset used
when analyzing the current broadband marketplace. Regulators and some in the
media have been fixated on fiber broadband, above consideration of any other
technology. This myopic view ignores many other consumer broadband access
methods and unfairly taints the overall market analysis for related
administrative decisions. ... But what about fixed wireless, mobile, or
satellite broadband as consumer substitutes?"
It's your job to become familiar with these technologies, what they entail in
terms of ISP investment, and what their technical limitations are. You cannot
have your current job and gloss over everything that matters. If fixed
wireless were a substitute today, you wouldn't have the telecom industry
feverishly working 5G. Are you unaware that this is going on? Are you unaware
that fixed broadband requires most of the same infratsructure as FTTH, to
become a viable alternative?
"Equally troubling, the Commission, and perhaps DOJ, has been unable or
unwilling to recognize mobile broadband as a sufficient substitute to fixed
offerings."
What is indeed troubling is your level of ignorance on these matters, for an
FCC Commissioner. You need to listen, you need to get educated. We really
don't need single-minded and technically clueless ideologues running the FCC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/18/new-data-americans-are-abandoning-wired-home-internet/?utm_term=.4786c84f5618
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But as the chart above shows, even people with higher incomes are ditching
their wired Internet access at similar or even faster rates compared with
people who don't earn as much. In 2013, 8 percent of households making
$50,000 to $75,000 a year were mobile-only. Fast-forward a couple of years,
and that figure now stands at 18 percent. Seventeen percent of households
making $75,000 to $100,000 are mobile-only now, compared with 8 percent two
years ago. And 15 percent of households earning more than $100,000 are
mobile-only, vs. 6 percent in 2013.
Stepping back a bit, as many as 1 in 5 U.S. households are now mobile-only,
compared with 1 in 10 in 2013. That's a doubling in just two years.