FREE Broadband Is On The Way - If The Corporate Pirates Don't Stop It First.
 

Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks

The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.

The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying effort to persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...5ee_story.html

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I'm sure it would make it a bit easier for the total information awareness surveillance program.

Yeah, I would still pay for my own. Not that I would be safe or anything.

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Exactly but there are ways to make it safer.................

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Ok. You stick with trustworthy Comcast, Verizon, AT&T. :1orglaugh

1 way the government! gets it is via their little app, the other way, they pay the big carriers $1/per email.

That will never happen.. For one the large tel com & cable companies have far too much lobbying power and number two it would actually cost us tens of thousands of jobs.

All those people that work for the tele co's & cable companies would lose their jobs.

GrantMercury = biggest freeloader on GFY....

Why do you think the Government should do everything for you? Ever heard of working for your own living?

Hey dingbat - I do work for a living, and I PAY TAXES! And I'd like them spent on something more than fucking bombs! I'd like them spent on something that benefits ALL OF US (including you)! You are a bitch-ass slave to the corporate powers that be. They make you feel GOOD about paying their exorbitant rates. :321GFY

And freeloaders? What the fuck do you call THIS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/bu...anted=all&_r=0

And another:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gener...ry?id=13224558

Why is it when government policies benefit the rich, and huge billion-dollar corporations, people shrug and accept it? But suggest we actually pool our tax dollars together, to build an infrastructure that could actually help EVERYONE - the working class in particular (who also pay taxes - a LOT more, percentage-wise, than many rich people and many billion-dollar corporations) and it's called FREELOADING!

Well trained you are.

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It's great how a big business will do whatever dirty shit they can get away with for self preservation.

Free wifi everywhere would be awesome, would help integrate everything moee

The last thing anyone here should want is the government controlling more of their lives.

well.. Your taxes pay schools, police, for the streets you drive on, or maybe sidewalks you walk on... The military that keeps you safe. for many things. There is no need for taxes to go to lazy people who feel entitled to cell phones and free internet.

General Electric has thousands of employee's all paying taxes on money they made from having a job with this company.

And again, 35% means absolutely nothing. To pay your fair share everyone would pay the same amount. Like 20% on money spent. one person paying in 3 million is not the same as another person paying 3 thousand.

anything that buttrapes the cable company/telecom cartels is great by me. I just dont believe such an idea will happen. congress is hopelessly for sale to lobbyists.

Jesus Christ. Not free. Our taxes would pay for it. That would be a GREAT DEAL when the cost is spread across all US taxpayers. How much money would go back in YOUR pocket if you could toss YOUR monthly cell phone and internet bill.

Your right - 35% DOES mean absolutely nothing. YOU paid more in taxes in 2010 than General Electric!! But what are you outraged by? An infrastructure that would put money back in YOUR own damn pocket! :helpme

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I admit I do feel my cell phone bills etc. is way to high. But as someone else mentioned, many many people would lose their jobs.

GE payed plenty. I wish they would move to Canada or something. Then people would understand how much they contribute. Also as an employer you have to match things taken out of your employee's paychecks.

But in this case it's King Kong vs Godzilla.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...5ee_story.html

They could get retrained - and they'd probably have a good shot at finding a job once all that $$$ being vacuumed up by Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and the rest goes flooding back into the economy - thereby creating jobs.

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ts_609137.html

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although i would love the telecom cartel to die, creative destruction does not always lead to better jobs in the future. new devices that would work on a free wifi would create lots of new jobs in asia, not here.

money saved by consumers would go to more of what they already consume: mcdonalds, clothes, movies, & ipads. nobody is well paid at the retail level to sell that schlock.

They could use the Electric Smart Meter Mesh Network they are using to spy on us now.

So you want to replace a competitive free market system with a state run tax funded program ?

That did not work out too well in Russia, China, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria etc etc etc.

You really have no way of knowing what people would spend their money on. It would get money circulating, and that's good for the economy.

But I do get your point. Without a doubt, the benefits would be much greater if we actually still made shit here. Benefits of any type of stimulus would be. But that's a different issue.

It's really not that competitive.

Good editorial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/op...tels.html?_r=0

This will happen in the future, I'm sure of it. It's already to the point that no matter where I go we have free wifi access.

If that will launch soon I will not connect to that wifi!

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