A bunch of netty women and men have sent a letter to FCC Chair Michael “Son of” Powell. The basic message is: When the telecommunications industry goes bankrupt, don’t try to resuscitate the corpse. Let it go. Its infrastructure and the business model based on it are obsolete. It can’t be fixed. Instead, let the market bring forth a new era of innovation and connectivity, let a hundred flowers bloom, let the moon enter the house of Aquarius, etc. The alternative is that we sink billions into companies that are doing everything they can to prevent telecommunications – the whole schmear of telephones, cable, broadband and the stuff we haven’t invented yet – from doing what it wants to do: go digital, go IP, go everywhere.

The letter is posted at http://www.netparadox.com. The issue is important because the existing industry is going to use every weapon it can find, including the blunt instrument of “It’s the only way we can defeat the terrorists” in order to maintain its grip. So, wanna help spread the word?

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