Save Access to the Airways for Consumers-Comment to FCC

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(http://www.savetheinternet.com/)

Dear Miriana,

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/o1w_JD113jm0/)

We're almost there. Let's exceed 250,000 comments to the FCC by Monday.

_Tell Your Friends:

Save Our Public Airwaves_ (http://action.freepress.net/ct/o1w_JD113jm0/)

 

 

 

Let's keep it up! In less than three days, you and others around the country

have submitted 239,000 comments to the FCC urging them to open our airwaves

for a better Internet.

The FCC deadline for public comments ends on Monday, June 4. Phone and cable

giants are lobbying the FCC to hand control of these airwaves to them. With

your help we can send more than 250,000 comments to the FCC and put the

public's interests before those of corporate gatekeepers:

_Tell Your Friends: Save Our Public Airwaves_

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/o1w_JD113jm0/)

 

 

This is urgent. Please forward this to five people and ask them to take

action today.

If used right, this public " spectrum " could revolutionize the Internet in

America. Its wireless signal passes through concrete buildings and over

mountains; it can connect tens of million of Americans who are being passed

over by

Internet providers like AT & T, Verizon and Comcast.

Broadcast television channels will soon vacate these airwaves when they go

digital by 2009. These public airways could revolutionize the ways we connect

to laptops, cell phones, PDAs, music players and other mobile Internet

devices. They can deliver an open Internet into your house without the need for

a

telephone wire or cable modem.

Phone and cable lobbyists are pressuring the FCC to hand over this spectrum

to companies like AT & T, Verizon and Comcast. Their plan is to horde this

valuable public assert and stifle competitive and cheaper alternatives to their

established networks.

This would be a disaster. After years of phone and cable company control

over Internet access, the United States has fallen to 16th in the world in

high-speed Internet rankings, with few choices and some of the highest prices

for

the slowest speeds in the world. We will continue this decline as long as we

let AT & T, Verizon and Comcast dictate the terms of Internet access for the

majority of Americans.

Help us end their stranglehold and demand a better Internet for everyone:

_Tell Your Friends: Keep the New Internet Open to All_

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/o1w_JD113jm0/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

More than a quarter million comments to the FCC is an incredible

accomplishment that cannot be ignored. Tell your friends to act now and help

clear the

path for a technology that will connect more Americans to a faster, more open

and affordable Internet.

Thank you,

Timothy Karr

Campaign Director

Free Press

_www.freepress.net_ (http://action.freepress.net/ct/91w_JD113jmk/)

_www.savetheinternet.com_

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1. Want to do more? _Write a letter to the editor_

(http://action.freepress.net/campaign/spectrum_lte/iuskesn9at88m8n?) to help

raise awareness about

this important campaign.

2. For more information about what's at stake with our public airwaves, read

these recent articles in _MediaCitizen_

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/kpw_JD113jmi/) , _Wired Magazine_

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/o7w_JD113jmP/) ,

the _Los Angeles Times_ (http://action.freepress.net/ct/9dw_JD113jm9/)

 

 

 

 

, _Forbes Magazine_ (http://action.freepress.net/ct/odw_JD113jmp/) and

_MyDD_ (http://action.freepress.net/ct/9pw_JD113jml/) .

3. To learn more about the public interest and the public airwaves, visit

the " Save Our Spectrum " site, _www.freepress.net/spectrum/_

(http://action.freepress.net/ct/97w_JD113jmo/)

4. Support efforts to save the Internet by _contributing to the Action Fund_

(https://secure.freepress.net/05/net_neutrality/nIdw_JD11DSD7?) today.

 

 

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