FCC chair Kevin Martin can’t get off the "free internet" hobby-horse. US citizens do not get free water, electricity, gas, or telephone service. Mr. Martin believes that access to the worldwide web should be different.
It is old news that Martin wants buyers of wireless spectrum to provide no-cost internet as a part of the package. Companies who want to send signals perhaps, data, voice, and video, through the air can pay a big buck for the priviledge and then give a money-making service away. It is a plan that even Karl Marx would love.
Some members of Congress and other FCC commissioners don’t seem to see it Martin’s way. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Mr. Martin said he pulled the item from Thursday’s FCC agenda because other members of the five-member commission had questions about it."
Among those questions is why the hell would anyone do that.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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