Former FCC Chief Touts "Big Broadband"

Anonymous Coward writes "Reed Hundt has a vision about building a 10 to 100 Mbps network for every household in the U.S. He makes a great case for why it should be done and how we can pay for it. What's interesting about this piece is that Hundt advocates a new approach to universal service. Instead of giving away broadcast spectrum (for HDTV) and maintaining (ancient, inflexible) phone lines, we should spend money on building out a next generation fiber network to every household, and run both HDTV and phone over that network. Then we can stop funding the phone network (which is pretty much maxed out anyway) and sell off the HDTV spectrum for 10s of billions of dollars."

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morons tout creators' newclear power/communication

[Anonymous Coward]

& planet population rescue mandates.

lookout bullow.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators... you can almost hear the light shining?

Re:fp?

[Anonymous Coward]

ok. you didn't.

Re:but.....

[1SmartOne]

1.) Implement buzz words
2.) Royally screw everything up
3.) ?????
5.) Profit

Works for me.

Re:fcc

[tgd]

Nope, thats not one of the benefits of the Internet.

That money is my money, and frankly I could care less about people living in the country. They buy their houses for 1/6th or less what it costs me to buy a house around Boston. They don't commute one or two hours each way to work.

They choose to live a life where they live, and they give up culture, access to things like broadband, etc. Thats their choice. I choose to pay more for my daily life in exchange for those benefits.

It pisses me off to no end to think that ONE PENNY of my hard earned money goes to support that infrastructure anywhere else. Even out the cost of living across the country by taking that government mandated burden off our backs, and make people pay their share. If that means you can't get by living in the country, so be it. Move to a city. Maybe more of America's cities won't be festering piles of feces, maybe community will start cropping up again.

In Soviet Russia

[Junior J. Junior III]

In Soviet Russia, Big Broadband is watching YOU!

Someone had to say it, and probably already did. I don't have the time to RTFACs.