Why Don't Republicans Believe in Free Internet Markets?

Republicans Think "Not All Internet Traffic Should NOT be Treated Equal"

Are Republicans being hypocritical or are they just uninformed?  Do Republicans know what is Net Neutrality?  Do they realize the US is behind the curve on wireless compared to the rest of the World?  All this lobbying and protectionism is coming from the same big businesses who were lobbying to ban cell phone signal boosters?  I am a very conservative person but the Republicans have it extremely wrong on this topic and are only thinking about their lobbyist pocketbooks on this topic.  Where is Rush Limbaugh when you need him to clean up the air on this topic?

It surprises me that one of the largest proponents of free markets in business is opposed to free markets on the internet.  Net neutrality is the basis for all entrepreneurs being able to thrive creating their business on the internet.  I think what Republicans are doing is simply listening to lobbyists from AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and other cable operators who are against net neutrality for obvious reasons.  Net Neutrality limits carriers and internet providers' control of the dumb pipes and gives them the ability to grant special access and preferential download speeds to certain content.  Therefore, giving more control to big business.  Is this what free markets are all about?  The internet is about freedom of information and the republicans want to control it.

"We're simply saying that certain conduct by the companies that do control access to the Internet aren't consistent with Internet freedom and shouldn't be permitted," said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.  Republicans of the House of Representatives are calling on the FCC Federal Communications Commission to rescind its network neutrality order from last year. The Democratic majority at the FCC has defended the rules as needed because the Internet has traditionally functioned without gatekeepers, noted Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican. "Aren't you merely making the government the gatekeeper in this particular case?"

China Mobile Free WiFi Hotspots

China Mobile is making a huge investment for the people creating the largest free public Wi-Fi hotspot network. In a desperate move to find ways to offload data traffic from congested mobile networks, mobile operators are looking at all options including WiFi. China Mobile announced they planned to triple the number of public China wi-fi hotspots from around 300K to over 1 million. China will use the Fon.com business model where users are incentives and paid to open up access to their Wi-Fi in return for being able to roam elsewhere.  Pretty ingenious and you wonder when Google will offer free ad supported WiFi?  It all makes sense to me.  I open up my WiFi network in my home and Google subsidizes or pays me for those who access it.  How does Google or Fon.com get paid?  They sell the location based WiFi advertising on the access point very similar to how Ad Sense started to pay publishers who visited their web sites.

China Mobile is building 1,000,000 WiFi hotspots, including 20,000 to blanket Beijing. China realizes that building out the Wi-Fi network is the fastest way to meet rising Web demand by smartphone users. Each China mobile subscriber gets a Fonera WiFi router or femtocell, designed to allow part of the landline bandwidth to be shared with other wireless users. The customer can turn off the sharing, but most allow it in return for being allowed to roam themselves. Result: nearly all the usage at home, and much of the use out of home, is quickly diverted to the landline network with 10x or more the capacity.

Fon.com is the world's first global WiFi network built by people who have WiFi in their homes. We think of it as crowdsourced WiFi network or open access. As a member of the Fon.com community, you agree to share a little bit of your WiFi at home, and get free roaming at Fon Spots worldwide in return. Sharing WiFi with Fon is safe and secure, and you won't even notice when others are connected because Fon only uses a tiny portion of your bandwidth. Fon has over three million Fon Spots across the globe. Just buy a Fonera router and connect it to your ADSL/broadband, or activate Fon through one of our partners. Once your Fon Spot has been connected and registered, you're ready to enjoy all the benefits Fon has to offer!

Obama Wants Free Wireless Access

Hip hip hooray!  The U.S. government will work with the FCC to free up 500MHz of wireless spectrum for commercial and unlicensed uses over the next 10 years. Obama's wireless spectrum plan will greatly enhance speeds and the economics of providing low-cost access for most of the US population.  We believe that wireless access will be free and widely available just like drinking water out of a public fountain.  However, it will not happen overnight and the process is going to painful.  There are some major telecom companies who want to stand in the way of the FCC and Obama from preventing this to happen.  So, it will be a long and painful process that will eventually disrupt the large wireless monopolies who hoard spectrum and only care about their own profits.

This free wireless will help create jobs and enhance service for the struggling carriers who will have a hard time monetizing their customer base with their new 4G and LTE technologies.  Free WiFi hotspots are growing 25X faster than cell phone towers and provides sufficient data access for frugal wireless users.  Carriers are expecting their existing customers to pay upwards of $1000 per year for high-speed LTE and Wimax access. Other companies like Google would like to subsidize wireless with free advertising thus cannibalizing big carrier subscription-based business models.

Mobile carriers are spending billions of dollars to build out 4G networks and most insiders think that this service will compete with paid. A government-driven solution will help bring broadband to rural areas and may become a low-cost alternative to fixed broadband. Despite the coverage maps that AT&T and Verizon hype there are thousands of rural customers who do not have any wireless access. These areas throughout the US and world have been known as "dead zones".

Verizon iPhone 4 Death Grip Problem


Despite the Verizon hype claiming that the new iPhone 4 would not have the AT&T iPhone 4 antenna issues, they are wrong. AT&T, unfortunately, took the brunt of the blame for the poor antenna launch.  Apple's publicity and marketing spin doctors went into full damage control to remedy the situation with free iPhone bumpers.

Verizon is once again "full of it" and despite what they told in a press conference last month that they made significant changes in the antenna design. This design included a design for CDMA use and the antenna design would be changed. So once again if you hold your Verizon iPhone 4 like the death hug you could see a significant drop in not just 3G and WiFi.  The only ways to fix Verizon iPhone reception problem is to pinch the phone and hold it in the center or add an iPhone case or bumper to the phone.  Don't hold your phone as you see in the picture on the rights.   For a more detailed explanation on how to fix it watch the video below.

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