[ale] OT: FCC and ISP

[Jay Lozier]

On 01/21/2014 01:35 PM, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> All of these endless issues of corporate abuses and monopoly
> corruption throughout the ISP and media companies just scream
> in validation of the vital need for Internet Distribution to be a
> commonwealth public resource.  The paths of information flow
> has become as vital to our public infrastructure as our public
> water lines and public roadways, so it needs to be fully
> recognized as such.
>
> in peace
> aaron
I have to agree with you, Aaron, that the Internet is more of utility 
and must treated as such.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jonathan Meek
> <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's a great article that the register had on their website about the
>> Verizon vs. FCC case:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/18/why_almost_everyone_got_the_net_neutrality_verdict_wrong/
>>
>> If I understood the article correctly, the courts ruled that while FCC has
>> the power to enforce the net neutrality rules, it cannot just write them and
>> placed them under the classic "common provider" rules that are used for
>> voice service since Congress has passed laws that make voice service
>> different from data service.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:22 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>> I ended up with 2 coax lines from the street - a for TV + residential ISP
>>> and b
>>> for commercial ISP.  A few months later, canceled the residential TV and
>>> ISP.
>>> The 'b' cable was new, thicker and took a 100% shorter run to the
>>> demarcation
>>> point - better signal.
>>>
>>> Comcast was extremely clear that having "commercial TV" over the business
>>> line
>>> in a residential neighborhood was forbidden by the public utility
>>> commission.
>>> Perhaps residential TV could share the same line - don't know. Dumped CATV
>>> for
>>> antennas a while ago. Getting 65 channels OTA from Cobb county.
>>>
>>> Using the term "commicast" seems completely inappropriate. They are
>>> definitely
>>> capitalists, not communists or socialists. ;) Their stock price has been
>>> beating
>>> the SP500 the last 3 yrs or so. Capitalists, definitely.
>>>
>>> On 01/19/2014 09:44 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>> If you have commercial internet, they'll string the TV  as well.
>>>>
>>>> Don't take no for an answer. They can string that anywhere they have
>>>> cable internet.
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 19, 2014 7:29 AM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com
>>>> <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      A person said that or a crappy automatic system?
>>>>      Commercial TV is not allowed at residential addresses, but
>>>> commercial internet
>>>>      is. The only reason I would guess it isn't available would be if the
>>>> building is
>>>>      an apartment and another line cannot be put in. Even then, I'd call
>>>> and talk to
>>>>      a real person.
>>>>
>>>>      On 01/18/2014 11:33 PM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
>>>>      > Except commiecast says commercial service is not available at my
>>>> address!
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