On May 30, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Internet service, from your ISP, fills exactly the same role as
POTS service does for voice telephony.
That is absurd Bert.
Holy crap is Craig ever obtuse. ISP service is the link from the home to the
global Internet infrastructure. POTS service is link from the home to the
global telephone infrastructure.
They fill the same functional roles.
Today, ISP service can replace POTS entirely, in the sense that the Internet
infrastructure can also carry voice telephone service. What about any of this
is so hard to understand, that it must be belabored, Craig?
Wrong. The 1996 act defines Internet as an Information Service and tells the
Thank you for confirming what I wrote. The telcos invested in DSL to
provide a broadband ISP service. It had nothing to do with upgrading
the common carrier telephone service.
Only if you have no perspective on these things, Craig. The Internet **is** a
telecom service. The 1996 act even says so. What on earth do you think it is?
Cable TV? A sports channel?
Pure crap, Craig. Your ISP service **may** provide "information," if you are
using an information service web site. It also provides intercommunications,
if you are using e-mail, instant messaging, Skype, FTP sites, or VoIP
services. Most people know this instinctively, because most people actually
use the Internet.
The telecom act instructed the FCC to regulate cable telephone service
as a common carrier.
And Title II belongs to telecom services, Craig. Not to your frivolous cable
TV service of the past. Title I = frivolous service. Title II = essential
telecom service. So it should be no surprise if broadband ISPs are regulated
under Title II.