http://techliberation.com/2008/10/22/should-government-funding-be-part-of-a-broadband-plan-have-your-say-on-november-18/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2008/10/22/should-government-funding-be-part-of-a-broadband-plan-have-your-say-on-november-18/comment-page-1/#comment-66182 mwendy Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:49:41 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=13401#comment-66182 <p>We are all Keynesians now, Drew. Just how far does government think it should take it to meet its moving goalpost? A house of cards clearly exists - the USF (or like) v. rate re-balancing to help get us more broadband. US policy has removed most of pricing signals (rate re-balancing) that would allow particpants to enter under-served markets. The USF and other subsidies - the political animal born from Theodore Vails enlightened self-interest - are "too big to fail," and rate re-balancing to politcally distasteful; the only option left is to expand government's role in the roll out.</p> We are all Keynesians now, Drew. Just how far does government think it should take it to meet its moving goalpost? A house of cards clearly exists – the USF (or like) v. rate re-balancing to help get us more broadband. US policy has removed most of pricing signals (rate re-balancing) that would allow particpants to enter under-served markets. The USF and other subsidies – the political animal born from Theodore Vails enlightened self-interest – are “too big to fail,” and rate re-balancing to politcally distasteful; the only option left is to expand government's role in the roll out.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2008/10/22/should-government-funding-be-part-of-a-broadband-plan-have-your-say-on-november-18/comment-page-1/#comment-56416 mwendy Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:49:41 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=13401#comment-56416 <p>We are all Keynesians now, Drew. Just how far does government think it should take it to meet its moving goalpost? A house of cards clearly exists - the USF (or like) v. rate re-balancing to help get us more broadband. US policy has removed most of pricing signals (rate re-balancing) that would allow particpants to enter under-served markets. The USF and other subsidies - the political animal born from Theodore Vails enlightened self-interest - are "too big to fail," and rate re-balancing to politcally distasteful; the only option left is to expand government's role in the roll out.</p> We are all Keynesians now, Drew. Just how far does government think it should take it to meet its moving goalpost? A house of cards clearly exists – the USF (or like) v. rate re-balancing to help get us more broadband. US policy has removed most of pricing signals (rate re-balancing) that would allow particpants to enter under-served markets. The USF and other subsidies – the political animal born from Theodore Vails enlightened self-interest – are “too big to fail,” and rate re-balancing to politcally distasteful; the only option left is to expand government's role in the roll out.

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