On 7/22/14, 5:18 PM, Derek Balling wrote:
On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <lop...@nedharvey.com>
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/
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