Comments on: New America: Can You Hear Me Whining Now? http://techliberation.com/2010/04/02/new-america-can-you-hear-me-whining-now/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim Harper http://techliberation.com/2010/04/02/new-america-can-you-hear-me-whining-now/comment-page-1/#comment-68773 Jim Harper Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:32:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=27815#comment-68773 Boaz doesn't mention spectrum, from which you infer that he doesn't think more spectrum should be available? That's a strained interpretation.<br><br>Here are the questions posed by the announcement of the event:<br><br>How can the market be changed so that there’s more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?<br><br>One of them might allude to freeing spectrum. The rest imply intrusive regulation. <br><br>Freeing spectrum may be one of the things New America works for. Whether it's "one of the main things" is not evident. Boaz doesn't mention spectrum, from which you infer that he doesn't think more spectrum should be available? That's a strained interpretation.

Here are the questions posed by the announcement of the event:

How can the market be changed so that there’s more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?

One of them might allude to freeing spectrum. The rest imply intrusive regulation.

Freeing spectrum may be one of the things New America works for. Whether it's “one of the main things” is not evident.

]]> By: john http://techliberation.com/2010/04/02/new-america-can-you-hear-me-whining-now/comment-page-1/#comment-68772 john Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:35:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=27815#comment-68772 Boaz writes that "Markets, property rights, and the rule of law provide a framework in which technology and prosperity soar," and I agree. But he apparently doesn't see a place for the government, which provides that framework, to improve it--for example, by making more spectrum available for broadband, which is one of the main things New America is working for. Boaz writes that “Markets, property rights, and the rule of law provide a framework in which technology and prosperity soar,” and I agree. But he apparently doesn't see a place for the government, which provides that framework, to improve it–for example, by making more spectrum available for broadband, which is one of the main things New America is working for.

]]> By: Jim Harper http://techliberation.com/2010/04/02/new-america-can-you-hear-me-whining-now/comment-page-1/#comment-67775 Jim Harper Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:32:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=27815#comment-67775 Boaz doesn't mention spectrum, from which you infer that he doesn't think more spectrum should be available? That's a strained interpretation.<br><br>Here are the questions posed by the announcement of the event:<br><br>How can the market be changed so that there’s more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?<br><br>One of them might allude to freeing spectrum. The rest imply intrusive regulation. <br><br>Freeing spectrum may be one of the things New America works for. Whether it's "one of the main things" is not evident. Boaz doesn't mention spectrum, from which you infer that he doesn't think more spectrum should be available? That's a strained interpretation.

Here are the questions posed by the announcement of the event:

How can the market be changed so that there’s more competition and better service? What can the federal government do about bandwidth? What should be in a consumers Cell Phone Bill of Rights? And, well: how do we just get these darn things to work better?

One of them might allude to freeing spectrum. The rest imply intrusive regulation.

Freeing spectrum may be one of the things New America works for. Whether it's “one of the main things” is not evident.

]]> By: john http://techliberation.com/2010/04/02/new-america-can-you-hear-me-whining-now/comment-page-1/#comment-67774 john Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:35:28 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=27815#comment-67774 Boaz writes that "Markets, property rights, and the rule of law provide a framework in which technology and prosperity soar," and I agree. But he apparently doesn't see a place for the government, which provides that framework, to improve it--for example, by making more spectrum available for broadband, which is one of the main things New America is working for. Boaz writes that “Markets, property rights, and the rule of law provide a framework in which technology and prosperity soar,” and I agree. But he apparently doesn't see a place for the government, which provides that framework, to improve it–for example, by making more spectrum available for broadband, which is one of the main things New America is working for.

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