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12-03-2007, 08:32 AM
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PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,140081/printable.html#) rattles off a top five list of the "Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America," affixing the RIAA and MPAA atop the list for eliminating innovation in their sector. The magazine puts Verizon and AT&T at number four for their fight against even broadband deployment, though they only briefly touch the two companies' use of think tanks and astroturf to disseminate disinformation.The phone and cable companies have had little real incentive to improve the speeds, prices, and reach of their broadband services. Today most Americans, if they have any choice of broadband providers at all, can choose service only from a cable or a telephone company ISP. Meanwhile, the FCC and the courts have consistently ruled that the cable and telephone companies are under no legal obligation to share their broadband lines with would-be competitors. Some argue that federally collected monies and tax incentives helped pay for those lines in the first place, and that the current owners of those facilities have an obligation to share them. Only real competition, not the short-term interests of shareholders, can compel ISPs in the U.S. to boost broadband speeds and lower costs to world-class levels
Incumbent operators appear again at number three for their fight against network neutrality and at number five for their stranglehold on the wireless sector.
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PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,140081/printable.html#) rattles off a top five list of the "Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America," affixing the RIAA and MPAA atop the list for eliminating innovation in their sector. The magazine puts Verizon and AT&T at number four for their fight against even broadband deployment, though they only briefly touch the two companies' use of think tanks and astroturf to disseminate disinformation.The phone and cable companies have had little real incentive to improve the speeds, prices, and reach of their broadband services. Today most Americans, if they have any choice of broadband providers at all, can choose service only from a cable or a telephone company ISP. Meanwhile, the FCC and the courts have consistently ruled that the cable and telephone companies are under no legal obligation to share their broadband lines with would-be competitors. Some argue that federally collected monies and tax incentives helped pay for those lines in the first place, and that the current owners of those facilities have an obligation to share them. Only real competition, not the short-term interests of shareholders, can compel ISPs in the U.S. to boost broadband speeds and lower costs to world-class levels
Incumbent operators appear again at number three for their fight against network neutrality and at number five for their stranglehold on the wireless sector.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Most-AntiTech-Organizations-in-America-89903)