Comments on: Settling Accounts, Part 2 http://techliberation.com/2008/04/23/settling-accounts-part-2/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 12:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Radia http://techliberation.com/2008/04/23/settling-accounts-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-48807 Ryan Radia Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:06:37 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10704#comment-48807 <p>Good posting on AT&T's forbearance petitions, Hance. Seems like AT&T is spending millions to comply with reporting requirements that don't even really matter to regulators themselves anymore. I can't see who benefits from this (except perhaps the accountants).<br><br>And the CLECs argument for existence gets weaker day by day as the ISP market gets more competitive. Of course the telcos would love to see wholesale price caps lifted. Can't blame them for wanting some taxpayer subsidies to build out service in relatively low=profit "underserved" areas. What do you think about the proposal to reform the current USF distribution system with a broadband incentive and advanced mobility fund?</p> Good posting on AT&T’s forbearance petitions, Hance. Seems like AT&T is spending millions to comply with reporting requirements that don’t even really matter to regulators themselves anymore. I can’t see who benefits from this (except perhaps the accountants).

And the CLECs argument for existence gets weaker day by day as the ISP market gets more competitive. Of course the telcos would love to see wholesale price caps lifted. Can’t blame them for wanting some taxpayer subsidies to build out service in relatively low=profit “underserved” areas. What do you think about the proposal to reform the current USF distribution system with a broadband incentive and advanced mobility fund?

]]> By: Ryan Radia http://techliberation.com/2008/04/23/settling-accounts-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-41317 Ryan Radia Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:06:37 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10704#comment-41317 <p>Good posting on AT&T's forbearance petitions, Hance. Seems like AT&T is spending millions to comply with reporting requirements that don't even really matter to regulators themselves anymore. I can't see who benefits from this (except perhaps the accountants).</p> <p>And the CLECs argument for existence gets weaker day by day as the ISP market gets more competitive. Of course the telcos would love to see wholesale price caps lifted. Can't blame them for wanting some taxpayer subsidies to build out service in relatively low=profit "underserved" areas. What do you think about the proposal to reform the current USF distribution system with a broadband incentive and advanced mobility fund?</p> Good posting on AT&T’s forbearance petitions, Hance. Seems like AT&T is spending millions to comply with reporting requirements that don’t even really matter to regulators themselves anymore. I can’t see who benefits from this (except perhaps the accountants).

And the CLECs argument for existence gets weaker day by day as the ISP market gets more competitive. Of course the telcos would love to see wholesale price caps lifted. Can’t blame them for wanting some taxpayer subsidies to build out service in relatively low=profit “underserved” areas. What do you think about the proposal to reform the current USF distribution system with a broadband incentive and advanced mobility fund?

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