On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jerry Dixon wrote:
The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday will lay out the case for expanding broadband Internet service, outlining current obstacles to making it widely available. The agency is considering whether to force Internet providers to share their networks with rivals and raise fees charged on consumer phone bills to pay for the broader access."
The telcos are asking for more taxpayer-funded goodie--er... incentives to expand broadband coverage. Given that the incentives (entry into additional markets, additional fees tacked onto customer bills, reduction/elimination of various other regulatory hurdles, etc) that have been handed to them over the past 10+ years have largely failed to produce that expanded coverage and improved service, doing more of the same is pretty much throwing good money after bad. jms