FCC Seeks To Improve US Broadband Access

MojoKid writes "The US Federal Communications Commission is working on a plan to solve the problem of nationwide access to high-speed Internet service. The three main issues the agency is tackling first are, figuring out how to improve availability, quality and affordability. Acting FCC Chairman Michael J. Copps held a meeting this week where he asked the public to comment on the national broadband plan, which Congress has demanded be done by February. The public has 60 days to submit comments; the agency and members of the public will be able to reply to comments for an additional 30 days after that."

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Silly unconstitutional nonsense

[MSTCrow5429]

The central planners are going to step into an industry suffering from heavy handed regulation, and magically undue their own damage? What will end up happening is an absurdly expensive and inefficient boondoggle, with vested interests (ie people who can't see indirect taxation, but want their broadband deceptively cheap), that will end up a Minitelization of what was a functioning, quasi-free-market network in a national socialist economy, where the people get reamed, and pro-government Big Business gets rich. I can't imagine precisely how this would blow up, but has everyone forgotten Goldman Sachs and AIG already?

Not to mention this is blatantly unconstitutional, a further usurpation of the sovereign States, and self-aggrandizement to the central government. There are no enumerated powers delegated to the Federal government by the several States that include the phrase "national telecommunications network."