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To: ftth who wrote (5208)	3/13/2002 6:05:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

<<Broadband needs a Marshall Plan>> Hold on to your wallets! This is the name of subsidies. (And I read only the title!) That's an easy one: Guess to whom this guys want top sell to. ILECs. After grabbing the low hanging fruit, the big concentration of ADSL subs, ILECs want your money to bring ADSL to "where Judas lost his boots" as we say here. But let me read the whole article and come back to the thread. No stone will be left unturned, promise you!

To: ftth who wrote (5208)	3/13/2002 6:13:33 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

"Congress should offer technology-neutral tax breaks to encourage innovation; to spur competition" Spur competition? Hey, wasn't that the goal of the -now defunct- Telecom Act of 1996? You know the results. "...it should not excessively regulate nascent technologies (like voice transmission over the Internet); and it should increase funding for development of new data-transmission technologies." Voice over the Internet? Over the dead body of SBC, the lobbysts and the complacent FCC. More new technologies? We have much more technologies than we can digest in the next 15 years! What I'm detecting here is blatant self-serving idea to get your money. What next? The equivalent of sending the men to the Moon effort to support broadband?