Franken talks net neutrality as FCC visits Minneapolis

In this article,you mischaracterize a rally being
held by lobbying groups from Washington, DC as being an official hearing scheduled by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC announces all such hearings on its Web site, and there is no announcement of this event
there. This is because the event was organized not by the FCC but by lobbyists who are attempting to influence it on behalf of their corporate donors. What’s more, only the FCC Commissioners who favor the lobbyists’ position have actually been invited to speak. There are NO speakers on the roster who have voiced a viewpoint that is opposed in any way to those of the lobbyists. At an
actual hearing, both sides of the issues would be represented. In short, this is a rally by lobbyists, not an FCC hearing. Please correct the article.

Sen. Franken, I am a NOC Tech, so I install, repair and maintain all telecommunication, including the net. at&t spent $19 billion on network upgrades in 2009. My bill, did not increase.
With our U-Verse being rolled out, we may seek content. But other cable and sateliite companies were alllowed to do so.
The Telecom Act of 1996, in effect since 2/1996, had no way of knowing how much technology would change.
Congress needs to stay on top of this and not allow five people (the FCC) decide these issues. The people deserve better representation. The FCC plays politics, everytime a new political party enters the White House, an FCC member, normally the Chair, resigns and the new member, who is of the opposite party sits in and these five people decide these issues that change with new technology by the minute (it seems).
I am against mergers like NBC, Universal (Vivendi – if they are still in) and Comcast.
But the eight-minute interview I watchd with you and the host, takes up much more bandwidth than a hardware store add, no matter if is a “mom and pop” or Menard’s or Home Depot.
If you do not want two-tiered net service allow the teleoms (the other ISPs ride our networks – for the most part) to remain regulated and seek content for their new fiber-optic cable services. U-Verse has won the J.D. Power Awards three consecutive years, so I doubt you get many complaints. And we are likely to purchase controlling interest in DIRECTV or ECHOSTAR/DISH – so rural customers will have access to premium entertainment.
John Malone, who owns controlling interest in DIRECTV, also owns the STARZ group, QVC and possibly other channels. I know a little about him, I worked at MA BELL, which is where he grew before buying TCI.
If any company spent $19 bilion in less than a year to improve service wothout raising pricing dramically, let them do business. I have seen your SNL reruns on Comcast owned “E” chaneel. Even the best of “Al Franken or “Franken and Davis.” What do you do with thise residuals, or does NBC or Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Entertainment garner them?
We know, likke you mentioned, people watching TV, music and all forms of entertainment of PDAs.
Eighty percent of people that will ever buy a cell phone, already have one. So the competition is iPHONEs against ANDROID and others.
I signed your petition against the NBC-COMCAST merger, but all have to be looked at differently. TWC and TWT do not have a wireless network. They have been Sprint-Nextel’s biggest customer for alost five years ($8 billion). They are going elsewhere in October, but they will not build a network.
Please Respond – I listened to you,
Larry Luper
lluper@sbcglobal.net
816-809-4697

I cry foul on the at&t guy who commented. AT&T has every intent of running wireless from the vrad to the home, and they also want to make set top box wireless. They have tested both already. So the intent of enslaving Wireless is an attempt at making the future a giant corporation controlled world.

I want to make a website. i am poor. But I have enough to make the site. i dont have the money google does. they will be faster. On top of that, they will figure a way to make it so they control the ability to get a site at all. Like the fcc does with radio. right now, I cannot make a radiostation from my home or office building unless it is ultra local, meaning it goes on my building only. If I want to push down the street, and the neighborhood, I have to get licenses and rights to air frequencies, which if I have one, goes up for BID, and the big companies see that and out bid me and sit on the ban.
The intent is to turn the internet into TV. In fact, my ability to pee on you will be eliminated as well.