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Court Ruling Points Way To Broadband Regulation
DarkHelmet writes "An article on CNET News indicates: 'A U.S. appeals court has rejected the Federal Communications Commission's request to rehear a case, in a move that could prompt local governments to regulate the cable industry.' The piece explains: 'The rejection could pave the way for municipalities to force cable companies to share their broadband Internet lines with third parties.' I personally can't wait for companies like Speakeasy to branch into the Cable Internet market and provide 10-100mbps service."
Soooo, does this mean we are (in essence) taking all the wires that the cables companies have strung by eminent domain? Not that I'm opposed to nationalizing infrastructure, but I think we ought to pay them something for their trouble. Oh wait, I've already paid for that wire ten times over with my skyrocketing cable bill.
'The rejection could pave the way for municipalities to force cable companies to share their broadband Internet lines with third parties.' I personally can't wait for companies like Speakeasy to branch into the Cable Internet market and provide 10-100mbps service."
I agree, imagine the impact this could have on modern bandwidth intensive technologies!
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
You forgot anal probing.
Maybe for you. I'm in the process of instituting my own, personal, completely unshared homing pigeon network. Mega bandwidth, and you can't have any of it, either. Nyah.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Soviet Russia, broadband regulates you.
I couldn't resist.
Weird, parallel universe. Reminds me of that cartoon where the cat won't eat the mice, mice won't eat cheese, and the dog/accountant exclaims "it just don't add up!"