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Telephone Carriers are Becoming Cable Carriers & They All Will Use WirelessThe U.S. Congress may have changed, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is still Republican dominated. Soon, the FCC will be granting franchises to landline carriers to provide cable (some call it broadband) in local communities’ rights-of-way. Those franchises will be for more than just TV. Once phone companies like Verizon and AT&T are in the right-of-way with fiber optic cable, what do you think their first order of business will be? This is our prediction: the traditional phone companies will make wireless available from their fiber in the right-of-way. Not just wireless telephone, not just wireless television, but all things wireless, which includes WiFi. Look out the window and you’ll see a bare telephone (or street light) pole one day, and a box on it the next. That box will send and receive signals that will be transferred to the fiber optic cable in the street (you can call it broadband) and from that arrangement you can get everything: · WiFi - Not the end-all and be all, but it’s there for you. · TV - Who needs cable when we’ve got wireless capability at speeds good enough for viewing? · Telephone – How would you like it? Vonage at a price or Skype for free? · MP3 (and I-Tunes) – It doesn’t matter that Apple signed on with Cingular (AT&T) for signals from their cell sites, you’ll get them here as well. Do you see a lawsuit coming over putting up boxes without permission? It will be nothing compared to what happens when a landline carrier in the right-of-way with a FCC franchise is told they need a wireless permit from the local government. |
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