URGENT! AT&T Lobbying Supervisors over PEG funding

For those of us who are either stupid or not on "the inside', explain what PEG funding is about and why is it good. I know i'm usually on the other side from fuckin' AT&T (i'm not that stupid), but i would still like to knwo what this about.

PEG funding is....
Every time a cable subscriber pays their bill a small amount of money is added to it that covers funding for public access channels, an education channel, and a government channel. This was set-up by the 1984 Cable Franchise Policy and Communications Act, which required cable companies to provide those channels in exchange for running their cables under city and county streets.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access
However due to a new policy called DIVCA our politicians failed to keep PEG channels in mind when passing that law, so now cable companies, and telecos such as AT&T do not have to provide operations money to keep those channels going.
They do however still provide funding for equipment. As a matter of fact last year alone they gave up hundreds of thousands of dollars in Capital money, but no operations money, to the one in San Francisco. http://www.accessf.org/ And now, equipment has gotten so high tech and hard to use it takes experienced and knowledge-able people to show the producers how to use that equipment. Most of the staff at San Francisco's public access station work for pennies on the dollar, and have to take grief from producers who are not satisfied with both the cable companies and the management at that station.

Hope that helps.

Let's not kid ourselves. AT&T or any of the other companies pay for these fees. It is you and I who pay for them. Personally if I want to contribute to these causes I will do so myself and resent being forced to pay for them.