Yesterday FCC Chairmain Julius Genachowski outlined a plan he says will increase broadband Internet penetration in rural parts of the US, delivering service to 18 million people.
The plan he is proposing would involve major changes to rules for the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Intercarrier Compensation (ICC) system, both of which were created to subsidize rural phone service.
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And it will still take 20 years to get the damned communications outlets to step up their game because they're still bickering about capping the bandwidth limit over the myopic amount we're paying for now.
Case in point; 1080p television existed in the early to mid 1980s in Japan, but the US was so tight assed they didn't want to spend the money to upgrade the equipment to broadcast in such a thing. Not to mention the fact that it took them over 15 years to broadcast in stereo sound which was a no brainer seeing as the VHF signal at the time could easily carry the stereo sound as it was a freebie carrier signal anyway (in a manner of speaking).
It's like Bloomberg speaking truthfully about taxing the rich & the befuckazillion dollar corporations in order to get things straight & even with the economy. He has the money & clout, so saying he's a crackpot isn't going to carry the same weight as putting the label on me. But the elitists will still never go for it.
Originally posted by KillerBug: "We are from the government, and we are here to help you"...if you ever hear that, do whatever you have to do to get away.
