A za to vrijeme u Amerikama…
by Zombix on pro.04, 2008 - 15:47, under Uncategorized
Open letter to President-elect Obama: please don’t send the stimulus money to the telecom incumbents
December 3, 2008 at 9:22 PM by Esme Vos
According to a senior aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the federal government’s economic stimulus package will include investment in broadband Internet infrastructure and funds to upgrade and repair the national power grid alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair.
Already incumbents like AT&T are lining up for this money. Please don’t give it to them. That would be a huge mistake, even if conditions such as “net neutrality” are attached to the package. AT&T will just throw lawyers and lobbyists at Washington to obstruct true net neutrality and line-sharing. The FCC will spend too much time chasing after the incumbents.
Three things need to be done in the US to address the country’s lack of broadband competition:
* The existing copper network of AT&T has to be opened up to competitors. Period.
* Functional separation: AT&T and Verizon should be forced to separate out their network business from their service business.
* Give the stimulus money to local governments which will lay and own the fiber networks, then they can open it up to AT&T and other service providers who want to deliver service — giving small local providers a huge price discount so that AT&T cannot outspend them in marketing.
All three are being done in the EU because European regulators have found out how difficult it is to enforce “net neutrality” and line-sharing rules against the incumbents. By the time a fine is imposed on the incumbent and the lawsuit is concluded, five years have passed and the original plaintiff, a small ISP, has long gone out of business.
The French regulator, ARCEP, was burned so many times by France Telecom’s anti-competitve actions that ARCEP is now leading the charge in Europe for open networks — it is advocating true functional separation and fiber duct sharing.
Recently, ARCEP concluded that one of the critical conditions for rapid deployment of fiber networks is a set of guidelines for operators, installers, owners and users to share the fiber local loop. It’s not surprising that France has gone from a broadband laggard to one where residents of main cities can get 50 Mbps symmetrical broadband service for under 50 EUR per month.
New Yorkers can’t even get that. So how are Americans in rural areas ever going to enjoy high-speed broadband at reasonable prices?
Glupi Ameri, pa bolje im je da grade mostove nego da ovak bezeveze bacaju lovu u tamo neke broadbande i druge gluposti. To je ionak samo za porniće… Fuj Internet… živjeli mostovi… živjela hrvatska Vlada koja nas je dovela do tu gdje smo sada… živjela Vlada koja nas vodi i dalje od ovoga dokud nas je dovela do sada.
Hm… krivo…
Živjela Hrvatska Vlada koja nas je dovela do ruba provalijeeeee!!!!
Živijo drug Sanader i HDZ koji nas vode i korak daljeeee!!!!!
Jeeeee!!!!
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prosinac 4th, 2008 on 20:25
A jel ti evropljani jesu il nisu proveli tu “functional separation”? Mislim jel to po principu: to je naša preporuka pa ako vam se hoće ili su donjeli tvrdi zakon po kojem moraju svi Telekomi odvojit mrežu od usluga?
A gledam ovu treću točku i pada mi na pamet Tatjana. A gajio sam malo nade prije par godina kada je obećavala brda i doline. Koji jad.