GNG News Guy
03-06-2008, 09:52 AM
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Those of you in rural America who can't get broadband have simply miscalculated, according to the US Internet Industry Association (http://www.usiia.org/), a Washington lobbying organization for ISPs and Internet industry. "The accepted political dogma that America has in some way failed in its efforts to deploy broadband is based on a series of miscalculations," insists USIAA CEO David McClure in a new report (http://www.usiia.org/pubs/Rural.pdf). Chock full of industry think-tank science, the report seems little more than an effort to blow smoke up our collective ethernet ports:Certainly, there is still work to be done in closing the digital divides in America. Equally clearly, however, this work should be based not on continuing efforts to pursue such unhelpful policies as open access, common carriage laws for broadband networks, municipal networking or network neutrality legislation.
Yes. Who wants application and device-agnostic networks and cities and towns allowed to run their own broadband? Crazy people -- That's who. And rural users who thought they couldn't get broadband because ISPs deem vast stretches of rural America unprofitable (and successfully lobby to ban those towns from deploying broadband themselves)? You apparently just need to go back and check your math.
The report goes on to throw their weight behind the already dubious Connected Nation model, a group that's been recently criticized as an incumbent lobbying group dressed up as a rural broadband mapping & deployment project (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/92074). How about this as the first step in the development of a real, useful national broadband policy: stop letting industry lobbyists and marketing departments pretend they produce useful "science".
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Lobbying-Group-What-Rural-Broadband-Problem-92407)
Those of you in rural America who can't get broadband have simply miscalculated, according to the US Internet Industry Association (http://www.usiia.org/), a Washington lobbying organization for ISPs and Internet industry. "The accepted political dogma that America has in some way failed in its efforts to deploy broadband is based on a series of miscalculations," insists USIAA CEO David McClure in a new report (http://www.usiia.org/pubs/Rural.pdf). Chock full of industry think-tank science, the report seems little more than an effort to blow smoke up our collective ethernet ports:Certainly, there is still work to be done in closing the digital divides in America. Equally clearly, however, this work should be based not on continuing efforts to pursue such unhelpful policies as open access, common carriage laws for broadband networks, municipal networking or network neutrality legislation.
Yes. Who wants application and device-agnostic networks and cities and towns allowed to run their own broadband? Crazy people -- That's who. And rural users who thought they couldn't get broadband because ISPs deem vast stretches of rural America unprofitable (and successfully lobby to ban those towns from deploying broadband themselves)? You apparently just need to go back and check your math.
The report goes on to throw their weight behind the already dubious Connected Nation model, a group that's been recently criticized as an incumbent lobbying group dressed up as a rural broadband mapping & deployment project (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/92074). How about this as the first step in the development of a real, useful national broadband policy: stop letting industry lobbyists and marketing departments pretend they produce useful "science".
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Lobbying-Group-What-Rural-Broadband-Problem-92407)