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Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:24:19 -0500 (CDT)
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to my house? IMHO, the only way to get real competition on the last mile is to have the actual fiber/wire infrastructure being owned by a neutral party that's required to pass anyone's traffic.
Which closely resembles what the original goal of "the National Infrastructure Initiative" was, back in the early 1990's. Fiber to the homes. 86 million of them by 2006. The Bells volunteered to do it in exchange for incentives, which they got, and kept, and then never delivered what was promised. The best short summary of what happened is probably here: http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm This boooklet is now maybe ~5-10 years old so it doesn't reflect more recent developments. We *let* the monopolies (er, duopolies in some cases) get away with the regulatory and legislative manipulation that led to the current outcome, and the irony that the message I'm responding to was authored by someone who appears to work for one of those companies would write such a message is not lost upon me. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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