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Is the FCC's free Internet plan clever or disastrous?

Outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin would like to create free, unlicensed wireless Internet access when commercial development is not viable.

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Disastrous; Muni Wi-Fi repeated

Cade Metz
Senior Tech Writer

“To the surprise of no one, the Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile is leading a chorus of carriers, ISPs, and handheld manufacturers who say that Martin's proposal would interfere with the adjacent AWS-1 band. That's T-Mobile's bandwidth. And various consumer advocates have objected to the no-smut bit.”

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Richard Koman
Gov't and Law Writer for ZDNet

“Let’s go back to a world in which free Internet is funded by advertising and the fees consumers pay to move up to faster access. Oh yeah, that’s the exact something-for-nothing disaster that blew up in governments’ faces when it was called municipal broadband.”

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Craig Mathias
Blogger

“We'll eventually see that advertising-supported or otherwise "free" access in any form is unlikely to survive. We should instead expect to pay for access, and even embrace the concept. The potential for profit builds markets, which motivate robust competition.”

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A clever new approach

Stephen Dawkins
Columnist

“Internet access doesn’t do a lot of good for those that can’t afford a computer, but it’s a step in the right direction: toward a society where all information is available to all.”

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Kevin Martin
FCC Chairman

“This initiative brings with it the promise of a free basic broadband service to hundreds of thousands of Americans who currently have limited or no access to the high-speed Internet”

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Cecilia Kang
Journalist

“The free Internet service proposal would be part of an auction for a swath of airwaves with a requirement that one-quarter of the spectrum be used for free consumer use.”

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