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Re:FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal ... by thereisnospork on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:55AM (#19005533)
It is not very consumer friendly to allow every tin pot municipality to price gouge and stonewall infrastructure development. The local control you are arguing for is the same that has caused the underdevelopment and monopolization of the current internet infrastructure (to say nothing of housing and mass transit). So please explain how it is in my interest, as a consumer, to let my town - present and future - extort or strangle* service providers?

*These are not hypotheticals, see Mill Valley, CA where cell phone towers cause cancer and 5g is persona non grata.

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Re:FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal ... by yeahitslikethat on Saturday January 26, 2019 @08:42AM (#19006234)
These are the same companies the govt gave our airwaves away to for free remember. And we still have the worst Internet of the developed nations.
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Re:FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal ... by thereisnospork on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:54PM (#19009101)
> So please explain how it is in my interest, as a consumer, to let my town - present and future - extort or strangle* service providers?
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Re:FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal ... by yeahitslikethat on Saturday January 26, 2019 @08:59PM (#19009940)
Because land selling for its fair value is good for human society. That land is for all of the public. Why should corporations get a deal that doesn't apply to all people?
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Re:FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal ... by thereisnospork on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:17PM (#19039600)
who's talking about land? This is about antennas on preexisting poles, which exist for the purpose of literally supporting infrastructure. Furthermore any asshole (such as myself) can register an LLC and thus be one of those 'evil corporations' you speak of. So this regulation you seem so dead against would actually be protecting your right to place a 5G antenna.

Since you mentioned 'fair value' for land -- why is it you are arguing FOR rent seeking? That's extortion, not fair valuation.

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