RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

[Eric Wieling <EWieling () nyigc com>]

Make the regulation and force of arms be as targeted as reasonable.   In the case of telecommunications as targeted as 
reasonable means the "last mile" or, more correctly, the "local loop".    I advocate stringent ongoing oversight and 
regulation of the local loop and very little regulation for the rest of the communications industry.     

If the incumbent telcos want to compete on equal footing in a free market then I invite them to give up their 
government granted right of ways to run their copper or fiber and compete on a level playing field.  They will never do 
that and therefore the last mile can never be a free market.   


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:LarrySheldon () cox net] 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:54 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

*too old, failing memory and all, I'll have to go read up on "natural monopoly"--I can not think of one that does not 
require regulation and force of arms to exist.