Save the Internet

big business as usual, direct action, equal rights, media, youtube July 10th, 2007

If you like the cable companies, you’ll love new Corporo-web.

And Verizon plans to cut the copper, so you can’t use regular phones or DSL

At first blush, this might not seem like such a big deal. Fiber optic lines are far faster and have a much higher capacity that the traditional copper wires that have carried phone calls for more than a century.

There are a couple of big problems from a consumer standpoint, however.

Yanking out the copper means there is no going back for consumers who might be unhappy with their new fiber optic services. Unlike the old copper wire systems, FiOS doesn’t work during a power outage, for example.

Yanking the copper also means consumers can no longer get DSL Internet service. DSL is slower than FiOS or cable broadband, but it is also usually cheaper. For consumers who don’t feel the need for speed, DSL can be the best choice.

ACT NOW.

4 Responses to “Save the Internet”

  1. University Update - YouTube - Save the Internet Says:
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  3. frank Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    Here’s the text of my email the the chairman of the FCC, for what it’s worth. Tomorrow, I’ll crank up Open Office and turn it into letters to my erected representatives incongruously assembled:

    This is to express my opposition to proposals to allow Internet Service Providers to allow favored access to some websites over others.

    It is not true or right that everything in this nation should be for sale. It is true that there is such a thing as the public good; the opportunities for companies to make money should and must be constrained be the public good.

    When I pay my not insubstantial fee to my ISP, I should have access to the entire internet on the same level playing field without their being able to filter it for sites with which they, not I, might be “business partners.”

  4. From Pine View Farm » Not Everything Should Be for Sale. Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

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