As always, read the 100+ comments which will make you want to turn the car around and go home. Believe me, facts hamper vigorous debate!
The incumbents will take on roles made famous from great traditions mixing Noh, commedia dell'arte, mystery plays, and s(l)ideshows featuring tethered services provided with consultants (Slideshow Bobs?) and lobbyists to avoid the public ever having to be informed.
Ah, the incumbents. Service providers. What Newspeak. I want common carriers with firewalls to keep them from owning content and applications. I believe in markets, innovation, and low frictional cost structures.
Here's to physics over monopoly. (And I don't think this FCC vision's close to what it needs to be, but direction positive.)
New America Foundation has a series of policy papers emphasizing intelligent spectrum management at http://wirelessfuture.newamerica.net/archives/policydocs. This is quite important for empowering rural areas, in particular, with modern broadband.
It doesn't take a carrier. Watch this space.
Cue the duckspeak.
F.C.C. Plan to Widen Internet Access in U.S. Sets Up Battle
The 10-year plan would reimagine the nation’s media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.
More more at http://www.fcc.gov/ on spectrum policy, consumer broadband test tools, etc.
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