{"id":35832,"date":"2011-08-12T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=35832"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T17:49:18","slug":"national-broadband-plan-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/national-broadband-plan-bad-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"National Broadband Plan Bad For Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government&#8217;s <a title=\"National Broadband Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/general\/national-broadband-plan\" target=\"_blank\">National Broadband Plan<\/a>\u00a0aims to stimulate the economy\u00a0by\u00a0mandating universal broadband and mobile broadband access.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35842\" title=\"fcc-national-broadband-plan\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2011\/08\/fcc-national-broadband-plan.png\" alt=\"fcc-national-broadband-plan\" width=\"174\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Criticism of this plan is growing explains Phil Britt of the\u00a0Heartland Institute &#8220;as private businesses are already finding ways to provide quality wireless broadband without government intervention through partnerships between industry and telecom carriers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The birth of the U.S. railroad system, the engine of economic opportunity of its day, was largely funded by private interests focused on supplying transportation in\u00a0areas that expressed demand.\u00a0 Even the mighty\u00a0New York Stock Exchange was founded not by government mandates but by private, opportunisitic merchants and brokers.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I was asked by Britt if business should be left to develop broadband as the demand arises, rather than any mandates for broadband before there is a legitimate business case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wireless broadband is better served by private development, according to Nathan Miloszewski, communications manager for VoIP Supply LLC in Amherst, New York. He says mandating broadband stunts the growth of the technology used in conjunction with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllowing broadband to find its own path of least resistance ensures that future technological developments dictate how and where broadband is used, not the other way around,\u201d Miloszewski said. \u201cIf broadband service is mandated, the hardware and software that\u2019s used with it is no longer free to be based on consumers\u2019 needs and wants. These developments will become pigeonholed into a one-size-fits-all approach to the type of service available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miloszewski added, \u201cFor example, practical use of mobile Voice over Internet Protocol is still in its infancy. Emphasizing that broadband services cater to it now, before demand has been quantified, removes free will for the technology to develop organically. Mandating technology, service, or hardware results in solutions that satisfy few or none.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking from a VoIP hardware perspective I simply believe that our customers, we as consumers,\u00a0are more than capable\u00a0on our own of shaping the destiny of the services we need and the type of devices we enjoy using with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government&#8217;s National Broadband Plan\u00a0aims to stimulate the economy\u00a0by\u00a0mandating universal broadband and mobile broadband access. Criticism of this plan is growing explains Phil Britt of the\u00a0Heartland Institute &#8220;as private businesses are already finding ways to provide quality wireless broadband without government intervention through partnerships between industry and telecom carriers.&#8221; The birth of the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,1054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-commentary","category-voip-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35832"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236353,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions\/236353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}