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To: ThunderSleeps

I can see some of this happening over 5-13 years out.

If the FCC Rules impact Broadband Growth then they will be able to declare it a limited resource that must be allocated for the public good.

We will have all equally bad Internet.

At that point in the Prioritization Process, politics come into play. They will do as you say and demand equal access to the limited bandwidth.


20 posted on 12/28/2010 12:33:56 PM PST by dila813
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To: dila813; ThunderSleeps
If the FCC Rules impact Broadband Growth then they will be able to declare it a limited resource that must be allocated for the public good.

"Limited resource" referred to the fact that there was only room in the spectrum for a certain number of broadcast channels, and thus the public could hear only so many differing opinions on TV. It was not related to the fact that each NTSC channel only had 6 MHz of bandwidth. Regardless of bandwidth to any one person, we have the equivalent of hundreds of millions of broadcast channels on the Internet with no practical limit in sight.

49 posted on 12/28/2010 1:09:20 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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