Competitive?
"We are concerned, however, that the FCC appears ready to extend the entire array of Net neutrality requirements to what is perhaps the most competitive consumer market in America: wireless services," he said.
"perhaps the most competitive"? That's as true as "the recession is over" or "health care death panels" or "Bailing out the banks will trickle down to the people."
Wireless is an
extreme oligopoly. I bet you or this AT&T liar can't name more than 8 wireless providers in the USA. They charge out the a$$ for text messages in the USA! Oligopoly is very close to monopoly. True competition would be 100+ cell phone companies with actual price differences, features, and services. Competition is where phone companies don't just take orders from the Whitehouse to implement warrentless wire(less) tapping because if they don't their radio spectrum/wireless/business licenses won't be authorized or expedited (thus inhibiting their growth and slowing down their profits). Competition would be awesome! I would totally support true competition in the wireless market. Alas, the lies... the lies. The big companies can only allow the illusion of competition (otherwise they'd have to give up their power and size). All the big companies want that illusion. True competition would actually put a dent in their bottom line, so they can't allow that.... so we are stuck with the illusions and the lies (oh, and the dropped calls, poor performance, expensive plans, limited coverage, slow speeds, etc, etc).
They deserve to be ephed. Net Neutrality is about democracy, not about the bottom line. How much do you want to bet the wireless industry is spending on lobbying our government to keep their bottom lines protected? Democracy is a higher order than profits. We truly don't spend enough money in this country to defend democracy from companies that spend excessive money to keep control of their government (it's not really your government any more, folks). It's a corporate welfare state.... It's actually fascism. Fascism is when corporations control the government. It's already the American brand of fascism. Read up on it.
Obviously, if AT&Ts network can't keep up with the usage demand, increase the price, decrease the speed in total, or use some other market based scheme. If users complain, so what, they'll switch networks. Oh... that's right. They don't like real competition. If more and more people sign up and start using such services, won't that give the companies plenty of cash to expand infrastructure? Stupid me, they're greedy mo'fo's who don't really care that you hate them as long as they're in an oligopoly and you'll get treated like crap by any "competing" wireless company. Resistance is futile.
The competition that exists in the wireless marketplace is an illusion at best and very nearly monopolistic at worst.
Net Neutrality should absolutely be applied to all internet capable devices, including wireless, because of democracy, equal access, and freedom of speech. Let true competition live.
