http://www.drewclark.com/2007/02/dont-go-back-to-1968-telecom-rules-says.shtml
AT&T and Verizon talk about national broadband and wireless regulation while speaking at the Technology Policy Summit.
This is the beginning of a potential push toward national broadband, which if instituted would force changes in legislation, and shift the focus of municipal wireless projects.
AT&T’s Senior Vice President Jim Ciconni has acknowledged a need for national broadband. “We don’t have a national broadband policy, we have never had a broadband policy, and, given the importance of competitiveness, we should have one,” said Ciconni.
However, Tom Tauke, Verizon Communications Executive Vice President countered by saying “a national broadband policy would do more harm than good." But he encouraged government-private sector collaboration to obtain more data about broadband deployment.
Tauke referred positively to KetuckyConnect, an effort to compile statistics about regional broadband deployment. The government could provide subsidies and loans for deploying broadband in rural areas that enjoy a lesser degree of broadband deployment, he said.
They also discussed wireless regulation, with Ciconni claiming that things have changed since the carterphone, saying “there are a plethora of carriers and a wide variety of devices that are available” on wireless networks, thus any rule that hearkens back to 1968 will be rejected.
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