And who owns the last mile? Its the cable or phone companies. So any real competition is squashed almost immediately. As I said, in effect its an unregulated monopoly, the antithesis of a free market.
>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. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:261544 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
