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Skype asks FCC to open up cellular networks

We need not only network neutrality. The right to use the network within the law, and not to be required to use the network as the provider intended. But we need wireless network neutrality as well. where our phones are not "crippling features on phones, locking handsets to operators, limiting consumers' ability to install third-party applications, and limiting the terms of service with bandwidth caps and restrictions on what content can be accessed through the network".

The reality is this is only one step in the right direction to un-encumber the on ramp to the information super highway. We don't want all the bazaar toll booths .

What we Need is a free to use wireless Internet with the range we have on our wireless phones. The bandwidth is there. The oligopolies want to convince you differently... HA ha. Then all we need do is buy an Internet phone, looks like acts like a cell phone, and We can call anyone, anywhere. The Internet knows no internal boundary's. Do you think its to much for the US Post Office to offer a phone exchange so we can look up peoples phone number. Don't you thing Google would do that for us. I know Versign wants to sell that to us, but we can buy Internet domain names for $10 from register.com SO why would I pay $100 for the same thing.

Software Patent Debate

"The court is now debating whether or not software is actually patentable."

Its about time.

The court needs to redefine software as something that is actually soft. Software should be that set of programs that are deliverer with the source code and making that completely un-patentable. Some of have a new term for this its called open source. But in reality its the only software that deserves to be called soft. You can still buy commercial-ware, if you want to. Lets just call commercial-ware, commercial-ware. There is nothing soft about it.

I am not surprised that US Lags World In Broadband Access, And the FCC's is at fault.

The cable Co. and the phone Co. don't provide Broadband Access for my house. Seems if I lived in England or even China this would not be the case. The real solution is to bypass the monopoly ISP's and use a grid of Radios to make up the local network. If the FCC had not outlawed the use of WiFi with a 10 to 15Km range we would not have all the problems we have now. I have my FON router and no place to go... But God bless the local Pizza place with the open AP. That's where you will find me. Yummm love that Gyro.

In case you didn't know the original Ethernet protocols where based on the ALOHAnet, a radio network at the University of Hawaii, that communicate across the campus from island to island. The bandwidth plan that Apple Computer proposed to the FCC way back in 1995 included hundreds of 10Mb channels in the Gigahertz bands. Here is the PETITION FOR RULEMAKING of the "NII BAND". The US would be a different place with an Internet freedom we currently do not enjoy.

Since then this radio bandwidth has been given out to cell phone companies that charge us the big bucks to use. So rather then to progress into the 21st century the FCC keeping us back in the dark 20th century w/ out open Internet access. Most Highways don't have toll booths any more why should the Internet. At least the FCC should not be giving the airwaves away to corporations that simply want to take a buck.

Here is some history of things the FCC took away from us.

Don't forget that Al Gore was Vice president then. He was Inventing the Internet for us back then. So you can see what a mess he left us with to clean up. Just think what he would do to Global Warming. It boggles the mind.