Comments on: Consumer Groups Attack Broadband Stimulus Rules

By: All You Can Download | linkthe.com

All You Can Download | linkthe.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:47:21 +0000

[...] Consumer Groups Attack Broadband Stimulus Rules (gigaom.com) Related Ways to Take Action: General Fund for Project Jason, by Kelly Jolkowski [...]

By: Christopher Mitchell

Christopher Mitchell — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:29:25 +0000

Tim, I agree wholeheartedly that we should not send public money to the large providers – Congress intended to keep the money away from them, but NTIA overruled them in making the rules and set it up the program to benefit the large companies in multiple ways – I discuss it at http://bit.ly/ntia

However, I disagree about wireless. It is not more advanced – the fastest speeds possible are over fiber optic connections. In wireless networks, that wireless area is the bottleneck – from the tower to the Internet is all fiber, which offers more bandwidth and higher reliability.

Tom, the money is not meant to provide free connections to people, it is to build the networks that we need to make sure everyone is able to access broadband (as in pay for a connection). The way to properly build these networks is to make sure they can support higher speeds so they can be upgraded over time. At this point, few are discussing a means to subsidize the monthly connections to the poor.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:42:55 +0000

I think that if we are going to have this type of spending we should be considering smaller providers who are using more advanced and flexible technology like wireless. To continue to feed large providers dollars so that they can advance their footprint and monopolize is not sustainable. If their networks won’t pay for themselves over time the consumer ends up with poor and outdated service until the next stimulus comes along. Bad plan in a bad economy.

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WWD Weekend Reading List — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:01:23 +0000

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By: Skeptical Now, Americans See Hope on Stimulus Horizon | The Paris - San Francisco

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:30:59 +0000

[...] Strickling, the administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, protesting the way the first batch of stimulus money for broadband is being distributed, according to the Web site GigaOM. The groups say the money is focused on areas that have no [...]

By: tom

tom — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:04:57 +0000

many interested users live in areas that are developed with broadband but it is price prohibitive. why not use the money to help fund competitors that will drive the price down. personally i think 768 kbps if fine for a subsidiesed service; but i woul dlike to see price caps to keep the cost to consumers as low as possible.

i do not care for my tax dollars to provide super high speed service to be used for tons of video streaming,etc. but i do not mind at all if i am taxed so that a person who currently can not afford to have internet at home gets a basic connection for email, web surfing, etc.

By: David Robins

David Robins — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:36:43 +0000

Free money for telecoms? This is getting way out of hand. What they will do with our money? This does not make sense. It seems the government is going out of its way to stuff the pockets of fat corporation with money and at the same time tax the little guy! Makes me sick….