Why We Need A New Telecom Law Now
"Dr. John Rutledge on why inadequate investment in high-speed telecom networks undermines our competitiveness. For the past decade, policies in Washington have discouraged investment by undermining the return on capital invested in US telecom assets." -clubbin714
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A good read, however my thoughts concerning this are that expecting the government and or the telecoms to change is probably just wishful thinking. Rather the public needs to build new networks which are not backed and operated by corporations, or regulated by governments. The most likely network of this kind would of course be wireless, as it is very unlikely a wired network could be formed considering the massive amount of legal red tape and restrictions, along with other boundries.
How this relates to the internet, currenly in the U.S. most connections provided by isp's are far more costly than they should be even for just 56k dialup, worse yet there is a major conflict of interest spreading amoung isp's as they are intent on being content providers as well as service providers, which I think is something that should be made illegal by law. Average broadband speeds are under 10mb/s both ways, the upstreams often less than 1mb/s. While internet services continue to degrade for customers in the U.S., other countries have pulled far ahead of America, in providing services at far better rates such as 100mb/s both ways for roughly the same monthly rates Americans are being charged for broadband. Is this really alright?
Using current comercial grade wireless products a public wireless could be formed, that would have much higher speeds than 10mb/s both ways. Also by using newer wifi standards and mixing in wimax, both range and performance can be made even greater.
So should not Americans consider just leaving telcoms behind, instead forming a much better internet? One that is completely free to access?
I think a free internet is the future, isp's are soon going to become part of the past, a dinosaur, just something we can tell our grandkids about.
Isp's, the government and corporations have seriously messed things up for too long, why not tell them to shove off?
Granted forming this new free internet won't be easy, there will be hardware and software requirements to be overcome, possibly even international issues. Though any trouble will be well worth it. It will mean no more messing with finding hotspots and hijacking wireless networks through wardriving. Everyone with a computer will be able to connect, freely from anywhere within range of any wireless hub.
Corporate and government agenda's will not decide or influence the future of the network. Instead just the limits of technology will.
The only thing that could prevent such a network being formed would be the spread of cheap fiber to the home connections. Say at a rate of no more than 20$/month. Whatever the future holds, the days of overcharging for highspeed internet are numbered that much is almost certain.
Discuss on digg.com
A good read, however my thoughts concerning this are that expecting the government and or the telecoms to change is probably just wishful thinking. Rather the public needs to build new networks which are not backed and operated by corporations, or regulated by governments. The most likely network of this kind would of course be wireless, as it is very unlikely a wired network could be formed considering the massive amount of legal red tape and restrictions, along with other boundries.
How this relates to the internet, currenly in the U.S. most connections provided by isp's are far more costly than they should be even for just 56k dialup, worse yet there is a major conflict of interest spreading amoung isp's as they are intent on being content providers as well as service providers, which I think is something that should be made illegal by law. Average broadband speeds are under 10mb/s both ways, the upstreams often less than 1mb/s. While internet services continue to degrade for customers in the U.S., other countries have pulled far ahead of America, in providing services at far better rates such as 100mb/s both ways for roughly the same monthly rates Americans are being charged for broadband. Is this really alright?
Using current comercial grade wireless products a public wireless could be formed, that would have much higher speeds than 10mb/s both ways. Also by using newer wifi standards and mixing in wimax, both range and performance can be made even greater.
So should not Americans consider just leaving telcoms behind, instead forming a much better internet? One that is completely free to access?
I think a free internet is the future, isp's are soon going to become part of the past, a dinosaur, just something we can tell our grandkids about.
Isp's, the government and corporations have seriously messed things up for too long, why not tell them to shove off?
Granted forming this new free internet won't be easy, there will be hardware and software requirements to be overcome, possibly even international issues. Though any trouble will be well worth it. It will mean no more messing with finding hotspots and hijacking wireless networks through wardriving. Everyone with a computer will be able to connect, freely from anywhere within range of any wireless hub.
Corporate and government agenda's will not decide or influence the future of the network. Instead just the limits of technology will.
The only thing that could prevent such a network being formed would be the spread of cheap fiber to the home connections. Say at a rate of no more than 20$/month. Whatever the future holds, the days of overcharging for highspeed internet are numbered that much is almost certain.
posted by bitz at 11:12 AM
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