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So AT&T says now that it will serve 5.5 million low-income households with their Project Lightspeed service (television over phone lines). This is very interesting, as it comes when there is a good deal of opposition to its push in Congress for a national franchise without provisions for net neutrality.
Read the letter to the FCC: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6518335459
Pay particular attention to the second bullet item on page two of the PDF file.
What makes this even more interesting is this leaked internal PowerPoint presentation that illustrates AT&T's intentions to the contrary. They have made it clear they plan to steer clear of low-income communities (labeled in this presentation as "low-value"). SBC (now merged with AT&T) plans to serve 90% of the "high-value" customers (a.k.a. The Rich) with competetive video services while only serving 5% of the "low-value" customers (a.k.a. The Poor).
Read through the PowerPoint presentation: http://www.comsoc.org/oeb/Past_Presentations/SBC_Nov04.pdf
Pay particular attention to pages 13 and 14, where they outline this strategy.
If that wasn't enough, they also verbally described their discriminatory plan in a conference call.
Find out more at: http://telephonyonline.com/finance/web/telecom_sbc_clarifies_fttn/index.html
Do you still think that national franchising is in your best interest as a consumer, and for all consumers?
Read the letter to the FCC: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6518335459
Pay particular attention to the second bullet item on page two of the PDF file.
What makes this even more interesting is this leaked internal PowerPoint presentation that illustrates AT&T's intentions to the contrary. They have made it clear they plan to steer clear of low-income communities (labeled in this presentation as "low-value"). SBC (now merged with AT&T) plans to serve 90% of the "high-value" customers (a.k.a. The Rich) with competetive video services while only serving 5% of the "low-value" customers (a.k.a. The Poor).
Read through the PowerPoint presentation: http://www.comsoc.org/oeb/Past_Presentations/SBC_Nov04.pdf
Pay particular attention to pages 13 and 14, where they outline this strategy.
If that wasn't enough, they also verbally described their discriminatory plan in a conference call.
Find out more at: http://telephonyonline.com/finance/web/telecom_sbc_clarifies_fttn/index.html
Do you still think that national franchising is in your best interest as a consumer, and for all consumers?
