Yes, maybe the press don't cover this sort of thing enough, but that's because the resources needed to write intelligently about this issue are rather large. It's an incredibly complicated topic, involving the need to understand the economics of running different kinds of networks, the history of regulation in this area and how the Internet came about in the first place, and the issues of Quality of Service, which the activists, though well meaning, conveniently ignore or dismiss. And the solutions they offer aren't perfect either.
For more information on regulating competition across broadband networks, check out:
1.) "The Potential Relevance to the United States of the European Union?s Newly Adopted Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications" Paper No, 36 at: http://www.fcc.gov/opp/workingp.html
The thesis:
"The European Union?s telecommunications regulatory framework adopted in March 2002 represents a bold and innovative response to the challenges of technological and market convergence in the area of telecommunications.
"It recognizes that much of telecommunications regulation exists as a means of addressing potential and actual abuses of market power. With that in mind, the EU attempts a comprehensive, technology-neutral approach to regulation, which borrows concepts of market definition and of market power from competition law."
2.) Recent speech by FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy on broadband regulation and the need to apply technology neutral regulations
http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Abernathy/2002/spkqa22 4.html
3.) And finally, my story on open access in the Seattle Times:
4.) "Sparring Over Internet Access"
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/ texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=openaccess02&dat e=20020902&query=stirland
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Exactly. Check out my story on this point exactly at:
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Open-spectrum advocates say it will boost technology http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstec
Yes, maybe the press don't cover this sort of thing enough, but that's because the resources needed to write intelligently about this issue are rather large. It's an incredibly complicated topic, involving the need to understand the economics of running different kinds of networks, the history of regulation in this area and how the Internet came about in the first place, and the issues of Quality of Service, which the activists, though well meaning, conveniently ignore or dismiss. And the solutions they offer aren't perfect either.
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For more information on regulating competition across broadband networks, check out:
1.) "The Potential Relevance to the United States of the European Union?s Newly Adopted Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications" Paper No, 36 at: http://www.fcc.gov/opp/workingp.html
The thesis:
"The European Union?s telecommunications regulatory framework adopted in March 2002 represents a bold and innovative response to the challenges of technological and market convergence in the area of telecommunications.
"It recognizes that much of telecommunications regulation exists as a means of addressing potential and actual abuses of market power. With that in mind, the EU attempts a comprehensive, technology-neutral approach to regulation, which borrows concepts of market definition and of market power from competition law."
2.) Recent speech by FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy on broadband regulation and the need to apply technology neutral regulations http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Abernathy/2002/spkqa2
3.) And finally, my story on open access in the Seattle Times:
4.) "Sparring Over Internet Access" http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin
Read my article in Monday's Seattle Times and decide for yourself.