Cable companies everywhere are a monopoly for sure, but that's going to end at some point as video over IP becomes more and more widespread. Just like Vonage is starting to take market share from phone companies.
The real problem will be who owns the physical wires - though that may become obsolete too with some or the newer wireless stuff. -Cameron On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>There there really isn't competition for DSL (if it's unavailable). I >>am definitely a very big proponent of competition. Fair competition >>is what drives a free market. I guess I just thought it was pretty >>open, when maybe it isn't in all areas. >> > > The problem is that in a lot of places there is no free market. There is a > cable provider and possibly a dsl connection, if you're lucky. In theory a > free market is great, in reality for many situations the market isn't free, > typically its effectively an unregulated monopoly. This usually means that > the costs are far above what they could be. Then where there is an attempt to > intervene in order to balance things out, the monopoly starts screaming about > interference with a "free" market. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261379 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
