fcc

Booo...

The telecom industry feels a disturbance in the force:

"FCC line-sharing policy since 2002 has taken the United States off track when it comes to broadband deployment. The agency should reverse course and require AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and the other big ISPs to open their networks to smaller providers of residential broadband service at regulated wholesale rates. This will foster competition, lower prices, and more innovative broadband offerings across the country, as it has elsewhere."

The U.S. on Monday announced a bold plan designed to keep the internet open and competitive and prevent web-service providers from unfairly discriminating against content that competes with their offerings. "It was perfect. I'm thrilled," Lawrence Lessig, the prominent Stanford law professor and pro-net neutrality advocate, told DailyFinance after the plan was unveiled. "The commission is clearly focused on creating a policy that supports innovation on the internet."

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/21/fcc-plan-for-open-internet-perfec...

"The Federal Communications Commission's announcement on Thursday that it will launch an investigation of the wireless market was welcomed with brave statements by big wireless. ... But this is not the FCC of three years ago either. And the three Notices of Inquiry that the agency announced at its Open Commission meeting notably and perhaps even radically expand the array of questions that it usually asks of the wireless service sector."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/fcc-launches-far-reachin...

From the article:

Obama "looks at technology as holistic and as a catalyst for job creation, economic development, closing economic divides, clearly a multiplier impact on the economy," he says. "Especially with broadband. And everybody knows he's an enthusiast for the Internet. Why not with 370,000 Internet contributions?"