[Grovenet] why government is paying for the converter coupons

[Katie Allnutt]

I've heard that too only in a slightly different form:
If the government was going to make a public resource (bandwidth)  
available to corporations so that the corporations could make a  
profit, then the least the public deserves is a portion of the  
proceeds going back to the public in the form of coupons to offset  
the cost of converting.

Katie
I like the idea of more bandwidth for emergency services too and more  
bandwidth to sell so that the public might someday get compensated  
(and hopefully someday equitably) for making public resources  
available to corporations. Yes, it is a public resource because these  
corporations would use the public courts to enforce their rights to  
use the bandwidth unimpeded and the courts would use the power of the  
state to enforce those rights also.


On Jan 10, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Kevin wrote:

> I've been told that it was part of the wranglings when drafting the  
> requirements.   ie..  if the government was going to profit by  
> selling the newly available bandwidth and in the process make  
> obsolete existing television sets the least they could do was to  
> subsidize folks who would be forced to either buy new TV's or get a  
> converter for their old sets.
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> Kevin
> (who likes the idea of getting more available bandwidth for  
> emergency services communications)
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