Again with the big telco’s
mitch @ 9:49 am on December 21, 2006
Whats up with people not seeing what the big telco’s are up to? Even more disturbing both political parties should be outraged at this same behavior as both of their founding values would denounce the telco’s behavior. But alas, the FCC has killed build-out requirements for telco’s, allowing them to enter only the most profitable areas of a city, instead of the whole city.
I’m all for letting companies be profitable, and even with letting the market forces have their way with as little government interaction as possible. However, the governments job is to handle specific instances where someone else’s rights might be infringed by the actions of another. In this situation, the FCC is allowing telco’s to dig up and make a profit from using public land. The problem is, this decision allows the telco’s to “selectively” use public land in their best interests, and ignore the rights of all of the citizens of these cities. Each resident of a city has the right to have a say in *ALL* dealings with *ALL* public land within the cities boarders. This FCC ruling, over rules this, in favor of the telco’s. Even more so, it also gives the telco’s more rights than the cable companies currently, at least until the cable companies rework their contract with each city. Whats even more disturbing is the fact that the telco’s only had to convince three people in order to gain this favor. Three people that are not voted on at all by the public. This is just one more reason the FCC needs to be gutted and striped of any type of authority, assume or actual. They need to be cut back to what their original purpose was for, to prevent chaos on the airwaves.
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