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Posted by timothy (50% noise) View
Cryofan writes “A Wall Street Journal article (via freepress) tells the sad tale of how legislation barring PA municipalities from offering paid telecom services was signed into law. ‘Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell said late Tuesday night that he had signed into law a large telecommunications bill placing severe restrictions on the ability of cities and towns to offer telecommunications services, an item that was heavily lobbied by Verizon Communications Inc. and other big telephone companies in similar legislation across the country.’” (Also mentioned last week.)
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Exception made for Philadelphia - by trickofperspective (Score: 4, Informative) Thread
It should be noted that Philadelphia made a deal with Verizon that will allow it to go forward with their original city-wide WiFi rollout despite this law.
~Trick
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Knee Jerk reaction, and well thought about reactio - by dextr0us (Score: 2) Thread
My initial feeling is “THOSE MORONS! I WANT FREE WIFI!”
But once i thought about it, i’d rather verizon (et al.) worked cooporatively with city governments. City governments want city wide wifi, verizon could do it, add a few dollars here and there, wam bam. Less complaints from verizon, and nearly free wifi. I’m a fan.
At least verizon goes to bat against other corporate conglomorates. (even though they lost that whole subpoena thing.)
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The best laws - by www.sorehands.com (Score: 2, Insightful) Thread
This is an another example of the best laws that money can buy. The I-CAN-SPAM act is another example — I wonder how much money was paid to the Washington scum to pass that law.
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Philadelphia free WI-FI? - by Rob Y. (Score: 2) Thread
I remember reading recently that the City of Philadelphia was planning on building a citywide, free WI-FI network.
Could the purpose of this be specifically to kill that off?
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Big Ed - by Doc Ruby (Score: 2) Thread
How does Governor Ed Rendell spin this bill on behalf of his Pennsylvania constutents? Since he anticipates Verizon waiving its right to stop local competition, and likes a “lucrative provision giving phone companies like Verizon large incentives to promise to modernize their networks”, he’ll just tell Pennsylvanians that if they bribed him as well as Verizon, they might get him to answer their calls, too.
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