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Gabriel Wollenburg writes a letter to Congresswoman Gwendolynne Moore urging her support for converting the nation's internet infrastructure to a publicly-held utility. He argues that universal broadband access is too important to leave to corporate interests and that the current regulatory structure fails to address the growing digital divide. Wollenburg also claims major internet providers are engaging in anti-competitive practices by overcharging for bandwidth and implementing tiered access plans that will restrict unrestricted internet access only to the wealthiest users.

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Dear Gwen

Gabriel Wollenburg writes a letter to Congresswoman Gwendolynne Moore urging her support for converting the nation's internet infrastructure to a publicly-held utility. He argues that universal broadband access is too important to leave to corporate interests and that the current regulatory structure fails to address the growing digital divide. Wollenburg also claims major internet providers are engaging in anti-competitive practices by overcharging for bandwidth and implementing tiered access plans that will restrict unrestricted internet access only to the wealthiest users.

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JOY OF JOYS!

HERE’S A MESSAGE FROM

T: 414-555-5555 GABRIEL WOLLENBURG E: [email protected]


April 15, 2009

Congresswoman Gwendolynne Moore


219 N Milwaukee St STE 3A
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Dear Congresswoman Moore,

Please consider supporting efforts to convert the nation’s internet infrastructure to a


publicly-held utility. The availability of bandwidth to all Americans is too important to
be left to the hands of the corporate interests that currently control the nation’s data net-
works.

As the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous in the American experience, the current
regulatory structure will continue to fail to address the broadening digital divide between
social and economic classes. The corporations who own the bandwidth capacity have
financial incentives to use their monopolies to control and manipulate the channels that
Americans choose to use to communicate. Open and public control of these channels is
vital to ensuring that all Americans have the ability to make their own choices about
communication and media consumption.

The broadband sellers are embarking on anti-competitive practices, effectively limiting


consumers use of online video, audio, and telephone communications. Analysts claim that
the wholesale prices of bandwidth use is somewhere around $3 per 40GB. Time Warner
Cable wants to charge as much as $30 per 40GB.

While I would urge you to support net neutrality measures, I suggest that the current im-
plementation of such measures has failed to address the coming storm of tiered internet
access. The current “test marketing” of capped and tiered access to the Internet should
illustrate that bandwidth providers are hungry to ensure that only the richest have access
to the complete, unrestricted Internet.

Sincerely yours,

Gabriel Wollenburg

XXXN. XXTH STREET, MILWAUKEE WI 53222


WWW.GABEWOLLENBURG.COM

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