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From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: January 21, 2009 10:41:24 AM EST
To: <dave@farber.net>, "'ip'" <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: RE: [IP] FCC Probes Comcast's Phone Practices - NYTimes.com
We seem to be ignoring the elephant in the room – thanks to “broadband as a business model” the carriers have already taken 90 to 99% of the capacity off the table for their own services, especially their own video.
This is why I keep arguing it’s a structural problem and we’re diverted by following up on the consequences of their being in the untenable position wherein neutrality puts them at a severe disadvantage against agile competitors and threatens the service-based funding model that defines telecom.