1.
Feature Story / On
October
24th, 2005. The Michael
Powell - Troy Cory NBS $27 Billion Dollar
Regulatory Seizure Question Was Asked and Answered.
The frequencies seized in 1910 by regulatory
authority, was held valid, but payment was never
made to the Patent owners. VATS: Video, Audio,
Text: READ While You LISTEN: You can follow the
Video Webcast with the following scripted text of
the event. (5min.) - This is a PROMO QT Webcast in
which you must download iTune Quicktime to
view.
Michael
Powell Introduction: "Regulating the last
mile": •
• The one great thing
taking place in my mind is the great confluance of
two remarkable trends that finally came
together.
• • The first
trend is really the analog communication
revolution. When Elliot Maxwell in the 1800s,
mastered the mathematics associated with moving
electrons, he unleashed the ability of mankind to
communicate electronically through an analog
communication systems of what was born was the
Internet, ah . . . the telegram and telephone and
then Marconi solved a similar problem in creating
the opportunity to do the same thing over the
airwaves in the form of broadcasting.
•
•
The interesting thing about
those systems is that their goal was to create a
signal that was analogous to what went in thus the
name analog so when I spoke into this microphone it
was the science of having some facsimile, some
reasonable approximation of what I said come out
the speakers at the other end. It was a very A to B
linear system.
•
•
And even today while the
public switched telephone network it's got to be
one of the greatest engineering marbles, it's still
fundamentally very sophisticated tin can and string
[theory]. I hate when I say that (laughter)
. . . and in any ways that system was the most
highly centralized system in the world . . . in
which the intelligence of that network resides
exclusively within the sole monopoly with state
sponsorship, Ma
Bell. •
• Troy: (David Fiske, media director of the FCC
said inaudible) . . . "the inventor of the wireless
telephone was Nathan B. Stubblefield . . . and I
asked him, I said well, how come nobody's bothered
to pay Nathan B. Stubblefield for his innovation
and for the patent for the wireless telephone and
that's what we are speaking about
today."
•
•
Powell: High competition. Most of regulations
for a hundred years what I call the last mile
problem. One guy had the only pipe inside (the
house or office) Well, that's ...you know, that's
monopoly that's a bottle-neck, that's a mess. So
one of the things ought to be committed to is . . .
lots of pipes if we can get them.
•
•
I mean already just cable broadband and DSL
has created a better dynamic that we ever had in
the phone system, in terms of price, competition
and wars, innovation and services, but the real
magic comes when we get three . . . I am an
anti-trust lawyer and I know. You get 3 fighting
each other they really start to fight each other .
. . (Laugh) . . . and I would love the broadband
power line which is in 96 or something percent of
homes in America . . . to be one of the 3
powerhouses. •
• Troy: I talked to David Fiske, media director
of the FCC, and he had a lot of good, great things
to say about you. You brought in over 28 billion
dollars during your tenure and ah . . . he said
there is something else, I expect another 18
billion by the year 1910.
•
•
. . . He also said -- the inventor of the
wireless telephone was Nathan B. Stubblefield . . .
and I asked him, I said, well . . . how come
nobody's bothered to pay Nathan B. Stubblefield for
his innovation and the patent for the wireless
telephone and that's what we are speaking about
today . . . and I wanted to . . . ah . . . get a
few thoughts about what you think about paying . .
. ah the government paying . . . ah the innovators
. . . and the innovators here in this room -- for
their services rendered for their frequencies and
spectrums.
•
• Powell:
(and the spectrum I don't know if it was . .
. inaudible)
. . . private property model in which the rights of
said individuals, citizens as holders of that
property . . . ah . . . have rights and any
disputes would be reconciled the same way the
property disputes are . . . ah . . . through laws
in litigation hm . . . or the government could
confiscate the property and make it a public good .
. . which is what it did a long time
ago.
•
•
Ah, . . . I won't offer a valued opinion of
whether that was the right choice or only this to
say that . . . to this date the courts have
validated that choice and there is no legal
question about whether the spectrum is the property
of the government . . . or the property of private
citizens or the patent holders . . . (referring to
spectrums and frequencies not to the payment to NBS
for their frequencies that were sold by the U.S.
Government since 1996).
•
•
. . . and I apologize I don't know the
specifics of the patent or what specifically
they're linked in but I think . . . I think that
debate while really interesting intellectually, is
lost a long time ago (referring to spectrums and
frequencies not to the payment to Nathan B.
Stubblefield and the other Smart-Daaf boys for
their frequencies that were sold by the U.S.
Government since 1996)
• • Troy:
Thank You.
• •
Powell:You're very
welcome.
• •
Powell:Otherwise I didn't
bring in that much money, that's . . . I think
those numbers are of the entire FCC
history.
• •
Troy: Too high or too
low?
• •
Powell: I would, I hope I brought in
that much, but . . . (laugh) wow, they didn't pay
me any of it either (laugh) . . . $135,000 a
year.
• •
Troy: You want a little
action.
• •
Powell: Exactly.
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4.
Related Stories and Famous Quotes A Judge cannot take
private property from one pary and give it to
another, except by following established
law.
"A courtroom is not a Sherwood
Forest" -- Malcom Tinker
"Will Congress preempt or
suppliment the FCC decision . . ." -- Mark
Sovol
"There's a vast contrast between
the definition of spark EM waves and continuous EM
waves -- sparks can transmit only dit dah, burst
and the other -- VATs: voice, music and
text."
According to recent reports,
Telephony has been around for 130 years, since 1862
to be exact, and WiFi has been around for a couple
of years in the disguise of Wireless Telephony -
since 1892. The term WiFi was original FiWi, to
symbolize FireWire.
"The NBS wireless telephone
frequencies transmitted by the NBS wireless
telephone, were deemed so sensivive in 1908, that
the wireless telephone was banned to certain
countries, including Germany. It was controlled by
the U.S. Army Signal Corps." -- The Smart-Daaf Boy
- 1992.
"The Wireless Telephone was not
created a little below radio, rather after 100
years, we have finally evolved the radio into a
status only slightly higher than what is described
in Webster's Dictionary."
"Nathan Stubblefield's view, as
well as Nikola Testla's include: both one way radio
transmissions, as well as two way interaction
radios, are so wholly infused. Combining his ground
(induction) antenna, and the microphone together,
he created the wireless telephone, in 1892. By
1920, he was able to integrate vision into his
wireless telephone system in which he called
Lookradio. WNBStv, transmitted WiFi and VoIP over
the Internet in 1992." -- Victor
Caballero.
