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Today, 33 hardware manufacturers sent a letter to the Department of Commerce opposing the reclassification of broadband internet back to its original status of a "telecommunications service" as a regulated common-carrier.
The letter suggests that the entire high-tech manufacturing industry and the 450 billion dollars it contributed to the economy in 2012 are at risk if the Internet service is returned to the same status it had up until 2005 when the Supreme Court ruled that the FCC had the authority to reclassify it as an "information service."
Signatories to the letter include Intel, IBM, dLink, Rovi, Cisco, Nokia, Panasonic and Universal Remote Control. Some of their competitors who did not sign the letter include AMD, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Samsung and Logitech.
(Score: 2) by unitron on Thursday September 11 2014, @03:05AM
Perot was right about the giant sucking sound, just not about the direction.
I used to wonder, years ago, about the people who talked about China's huge population and how great it would be to open up the market there, because I didn't see the point since such a huge percentage of that population was dirt poor.
Turns out they planned to fix that by moving all the jobs over there as well.
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(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Thursday September 11 2014, @04:00PM
-1 Sad.
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