Broadband Infrastructure CAN deliver the capability to utilize the Internet and make various information transactions / exchanges possible WHEN it exists in Places that want to interact.

Where IT’s not, you can’t.

How can the FCC upshot assure:
- That access to internet resources is ubiquitos.
- That providers design the integration of their networks into the fabric of our communities in ways that serve all citizens rather than merely those whose subscriptions will garner the most PPV & VOD transactions for the operator.
- That a dialogue be mandated between ICT regulators and administrators and Urban & Economic Development Planners so that the ICT infrastructure develops in concert with the development planning of communities.

Support for open access to a continuously evolving Internet is vital to our continuing health as a nation.

As a protocol inventor, designer, developer, etc. I am fascinated by your
apparent lack of knowledge of modern technology. Much of that technology
has been designed to route around The Big Lie Society.

I have a feeling that you equate
The Big Lie Society and their
groupies to be “The Internet”.
I suppose you could also call them
The Tribe, The Clique, etc. and point
out their common bound, ancient
out-dated protocols and technology.
One could also observe their archaic,
unfair, one-party governance structures.

Could it be that the U.S. Government,
in the form of the FCC and other
agencies, has finally started to wake
up to the burden that The Big Lie
Society places on the American People ?
Could it be that the FCC wants to try
to help the America People break free
from the shackles of The Big Lie
Society ?

Are you concerned that The Big Lie
Society along with other groups like
The Taliban, are best handled by
ignoring them and routing around them?
Could it be that modern technology
will allow the American People to
collectively decide to route around
The Big Lie Society ? Could it be
that the U.S. FCC wants to help
empower the American People to make
that choice vs. having all decisions
dictated to them by The Big Lie
Society ?

Are you concerned that the American
People will collectively choose to
have BETTER network experiences
without the meddling of The Big Lie
Society ?

“IT” Seeks Overall Control – America
better wake up and route around “IT”

We do not need multiple sets of infrastructure, we need multiple service providers. If the infrastructure is strongly regulated by those who understand the need for regulation, and the services provided over that infrastructure are unregulated and available at the same cost to all, competition will flourish. Unfortunately, today we have neither situation. The infrastructure is poorly regulated and we keep trying to regulate the services provided over it. This results in monopolistic practices, expensive lobbying, and poor customer service.

My mission, for more than 17 years, has been to make a fair wage while providing the best possible Internet service, at the best price, to as many rural users as possible.

Regulation of my industry — especially innovation-killing regulation such as is proposed in the comment above — would not only destroy thousands of worthy small businesses like my own, eliminating competition and jobs; it woul also leave many users without access altogether. And this is fact, not supposition.

The false “supposition” which is made in the document above is that unless ISPs are regulated, they will somehow do something evil. This is tantamount to saying that because you have the ability to commit murder, you must be jailed immediately even if you have never contemplated such a thing.

It is worth remembering that the Internet grew and flourished due to a lack of regulation. But now that large corporations such as Google see an advantage in it, they are lobbying to regulate it in a way that serves their interests. (You will note that many of the initial signatories above work for organizations which have received substantial amounts of money from Google.)

Regulating the Internet to suit Google (which, lest we forget, IS spying on users; it is now the largest purveyor of spyware tracking “cookies” on the Internet and is growing its monopolistic 80% market share in Internet search) will kill competition and innovation. It must not happen. Again, read the article by Andrew Orlowski cited above, and also another article by the same author at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/15/neutrality_in_europe_analysis/print.html