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Dear Marilyn,
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
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
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
www.savetheinternet.com
1. Want to do more? Write a letter to the editor 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, Wired Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes Magazine and MyDD.
3. To learn more about the public interest and the public airwaves, visit the "Save Our Spectrum" site, www.freepress.net/spectrum/
4. Support efforts to save the Internet by contributing to the Action Fund today.
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