Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: June 17, 2009 12:00:48 PM EDT
To: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr () yahoo com>
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say

Was Frontline's failure due to regulatory barriers?

On 06/17/2009 10:46 AM, Stagg Newman wrote:
> PFF certainly has the right of free speech.   Just need to know who  
> is paying
> for the speech.
>
> It is amazing the number of different "mouthpieces" that the large  
> corporation have in DC.
>
> Having spent a year and invested considerable personal time, energy,  
> and money as CTO of Frontline Wireless, a startup that would have  
> provided a high performance wireless wholesale IP infrastructure to  
> enable edge players to innovate and failed, I got some very harsh  
> lessons at just how effective the large incumbents are in using all  
> of these mouthpieces to affect the polical and regulatory process.
>
> Frontline did not succeed even with two former FCC chair (one  
> demoncrat and one republican), a former republican head of NTIA,  
> former CEO at both ATT Wireless and Netscape, and two of the premier  
> Silicon Valley VCs among it's key inverstors.
>
> I hope the Obama adminstration will be more supportive of policy and  
> regulation that will enable innovation and innovators.   We shall see.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 6/17/09, David P. Reed <dpreed () reed com> wrote:
>
> From: David P. Reed <dpreed () reed com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say
> To: dave () farber net, "Stagg Newman" <lsnewmanjr () yahoo com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:03 AM
>
> Doesn't the PFF have the corporate right of free speech, Stagg?  I'm  
> sure their staffers would never favor anyone's viewpoint merely  
> because of money.  In fact, isn't the term "freedom" in their name  
> focused on freedom of companies to do and to say whatever they please?
>
> We wouldn't want the socialists to decide that people can  
> communicate freely over "their" networks, merely because they pay  
> for Internet access.




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