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Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering
From: Roland Perry <roland () linx net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:14:26 +0100
In message <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306151908430.29014-100000 () clifden donelan com>, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> writes
If I think a grocery store in Ireland is charging too much for potatoes, can I ask the Irish government to order the grocery store to change its price on potatoes?
If the grocery store had a monopoly on selling potatoes in Ireland, and after an investigation into the costs of supplying potatoes to the retail market it was shown that they were profiteering, you might find they'd say "yes". Although such mechanisms are normally reserved for utilities, and the Internet just came of age in as much as governments now regard it as an essential utility. Another recent example being:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-714188,00.html -- Roland Perry
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- from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Steve Bellovin (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Mark Prior (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Roland Perry (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Nick Hilliard (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Sean Donelan (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Peter Galbavy (Jun 15)
- Re: from Dave Farber's list: Ireland to regulate peering Roland Perry (Jun 16)