Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

[Blaine Christian <blaine () blaines net>]

On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> > In message <Pine.GSO. 
> > 4.58.0511141103370.27792 () clifden donelan com>, Sean Donela
> > n writes:
> > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Blaine Christian wrote:
> > > > We are talking about an infrastructure that does not lend itself  
> > > > very
> > > > well to market forces.  In many places FFTH and/or DSL from a  
> > > > single
> > > > carrier are becoming the only options.  I would not count a 500ms
> > > > satellite hop as an option <grin>.
> > >
> > > The cable industry claims 97% of the households passed in the  
> > > US.  Why
> > > don't you consider it an option?
> > Do they claim to pass 97% with two-way cable?
>
> The cable industry claims 91% of households passed with two-way cable.

Let's change this just a bit.   How about FFTH/DSL OR Cable.  The  
point was that it is usually two options.  Oligopoly is nearly as bad  
as Monopoly you know <grin>.