RE: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

[Bryan Socha <bryan () digitalocean com>]

There's no monopoly.   Stop your lines with them and they are just fiber
mpls.     If they can't get people are changing and not peering with them,
or refusing free ports its their bad.     I'll take it up next week.  Tell
me what you all need.

Bryan digitalocean.
PS, were not ipv6 because we had to update for growth.   2 weeks you'll be
happy.
On Mar 21, 2014 11:46 PM, "Eric Wieling" <EWieling () nyigc com> wrote:

> 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.