Oh My, could it be the FCC got it right?

"This is a pivotal moment," said Ben Scott, director of policy at the public interest group Free Press. The government wants to treat broadband Internet as a national infrastructure, he said, like phone lines or the broadcast spectrum. But federal regulators are grappling with older policies that do not clearly protect consumers' access to the Web, their privacy or prices of service. from the washingtonpost.com

The FCC, which regulates public access to telephone and television services, has been working to claim the same role for the Internet. The stakes are high, as the Obama administration pushes an agenda of open broadband access for all and big corporations work to protect their enormous investments in a new and powerful medium. same source.

The article go on about the federal appeals court grilling the FCC lawyer about its possibly acting out side of its authority.

I can only hope that this goes to a place where the judges understand the intent of the Constitution and the intent of the freedom speech issues. I can't say the bill of rights covers privately owned copper and glass. The the airwaves are the property of the people and should not be sold to the highest bidder. The last mile access to the Internet should not be owned like it was glass and copper.

If we are given our, I say, constitutional right to bandwidth to put a router on our roof and thus giving the last mile access to the people. and not money grubbing big corporations. We will find that there will all of a sudden be many broadband providers, not the one or perhaps two we have become use to. Having real competition will allow capitalisation to function properly. And local cell phone traffic will only be the cost of the hardware.

How often do you travel to places where there are no roof tops. Places there there are no roof tops for miles is where you might have local calling access problems. Not putting a router on your roof will be less common then people that have no phones. local cell phone costs should not be per packet or per minute rather the cost should only cost of the hardware and power to run that hardware.

You see the Internet was first designed as a fail safe system that can self correct when a roof top radio drops off the grid. The Internet was also originally based on a radio network. And we are so familiar with the low power WiFi that the Old FCC limited us to. now add power and take back the public broadcast spectrum and we can change the world for the better.

I am not saying to take away the land lines. for those that want them. I am simply saying we don't need to pad the pockets of fat corporations with local phone and text last mile of the Internet.

If anything comes of this, and I am sceptical, it may be the first positive thing that this administration can do to make the USA a better place.