re DOJ: more spectrum for wireless = more competitive Internet

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
> Date: January 5, 2010 3:03:59 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] DOJ: more spectrum for wireless = more  
> competitive  Internet

> Everyone:
>
> This document is well worth reading -- especially the section  
> regarding the problems with the current rules for the auctioning of  
> exclusive spectrum licenses.
>
> Please note, by the way, that my ISP -- whose tiered rate plans were  
> cited in the document -- has increased the minimum guaranteed  
> bandwidth at each of its price tiers by 25%. (We cannot increase it  
> any more unless the FCC acts to prohibit anticompetitive "special  
> access" pricing, which currently drives our backbone bandwidth costs  
> to more than $100 per Mbps.) See http://www.lariat.net/rates.html.
>
> Also note that our throughput guarantee is only a minimum (a  
> "committed information rate," or CIR), not a maximum or "up to" rate  
> as advertised by cable and telephone companies. Most broadband  
> providers offer no CIR whatsoever, and therefore there is no way to  
> confirm that one is getting what one is paying for.
>
> --Brett Glass



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