Easier, and better, than further entrenching ISPs by turning them into protected common carriers.
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/22/14, 5:18 PM, Derek Balling wrote: >>> On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would agree, only if the consumers had more competition to choose from. >>> There is a huge percentage of America whose choices are Comcast or Verizon. >> And so - again - at the risk of noticing the horse is dead - the competition >> issue is trivially solved by the gov't, and nobody would complain but >> lobbyists. > > "[...] telecom firms have successfully pushed 20 states to pass laws limiting > the reach of community-owned utilities like EPB." [1] > > I agree that ending government-granted monopolies and opening Verizon et al. > up to competition would be _a_ solution, but I don't think it would be > anywhere near as easy to accomplish as you're making it out to be. > > - Adam Compton > > [1]: > http://www.salon.com/2014/07/18/comcasts_worst_nightmare_how_tennessee_could_save_americas_internet_partner/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
