[IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>

Date: June 17, 2009 12:00:48 PM EDT

To: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com>

Cc: dave@farber.net

Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say

Was Frontline's failure due to regulatory barriers?

On 06/17/2009 10:46 AM, Stagg Newman wrote:

PFF certainly has the right of free speech.   Just need to know who is paying

for the speech.

 

It is amazing the number of different "mouthpieces" that the large corporation have in DC.

 

Having spent a year and invested considerable personal time, energy, and money as CTO of Frontline Wireless, a startup that would have provided a high performance wireless wholesale IP infrastructure to enable edge players to innovate and failed, I got some very harsh lessons at just how effective the large incumbents are in using all of these mouthpieces to affect the polical and regulatory process.

 

Frontline did not succeed even with two former FCC chair (one demoncrat and one republican), a former republican head of NTIA, former CEO at both ATT Wireless and Netscape, and two of the premier Silicon Valley VCs among it's key inverstors.

 

I hope the Obama adminstration will be more supportive of policy and regulation that will enable innovation and innovators.   We shall see.

 

 

 

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> wrote:

From: David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: American Broadband Market Works, Economists Say
To: dave@farber.net, "Stagg Newman" <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:03 AM

Doesn't the PFF have the corporate right of free speech, Stagg?  I'm sure their staffers would never favor anyone's viewpoint merely because of money.  In fact, isn't the term "freedom" in their name focused on freedom of companies to do and to say whatever they please?

We wouldn't want the socialists to decide that people can communicate freely over "their" networks, merely because they pay for Internet access.

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