Broadband Common Sense, but Not True!

More on Michael Powell’s remarks. I cannot tell where the incumbent carriers PR (propaganda) leaves off and where Powell’s business head begins. But then again, that’s the general idea. Maybe this can be seen as an example of just how effective PR (propoganda) can be in shaping misguided public openion.
 
Re: Common Sense Broadband Gap
To: Mike Langberg 
mercurynews 
 
Thanks for writing for the Mercury, one of the only news sources that accepts feedback. You hit the nail on the head with the competition thing and on the importance of allowing innovation to grow free of regulation.
 
I am concerned that the Valley entrepreneurs and VCs got a bad rap, however. Let me explain. Our technology drives our economy. The old incumbent monolithic institutions do not drive growth but rather spend their money valorizing government into cooperating with their cartels and static pricing structure. We are highly dependent on your VCs and their support of small business, start-ups and brilliant technologies. This is where the jobs are. This is where the wealth is created commensurate with public offering. This Technology segment, hardware and computers are mutually timed with Murphy's Law. The wonderful side effect of Murphy's Law is the egalitarian effect of extending the market to lower and lower income levels so that the technology benefits everyone and extends to emerging economies. Income grows because of the wide margin, the elasticity of the market and the increasing volume of users. From a practical standpoint, the global market is near limitless for the new technologies, not all of them of course but it only takes a few big winners.
 
Telecommunication however finds the incumbents dominating the scene and the FCC. The Technology world has Moor's Law. The Telecommunication world has Bell's Law. I am being facetious but the term fits. With Moor's Law prices drop, service speeds up. With Bell's Law prices are fixed, taxed and service is repressed. Competition is squeezed with the help of the FCC and the legislators. The PR of the Bells makes you believe there is no demand and dial-up is good enough for basics. This has been the incumbents propaganda for five years or more. Why? Don't be fooled. The Bells will go to any length to retard the development of VOIP. Keeping the band width under a megabit is a sure way.
 
DSL has cost $45-50 for years. There is no sign of that changing. Mine has gone up. Unless bandwidth keeps pace with Moor's Law, there is no Internet growth economy. The VCs are not dumb, even if you know them, nor are the main stream IP engineers who are fearful that we are falling behind, in fact and in educated personnel.