Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 12:48:04PM -0800, William Herrin: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 12:39 PM Noah <n...@neo.co.tz> wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, 22:06 David Conrad via NANOG, <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > >> > 2. I'm not convinced that the service regions should be limited by the > >> > ICP to non-overlapping geographic territories. > >> > >> While geographic monopolies may have made sense in the past, it is unclear > >> to me how/why they make sense today (unless the point is to > >> create/perpetuate a cartel). > > > > I am curious as to what you mean by create/perpetuate a cartel? > > A group of geographical monopolies who between them have total control > over what the essential service costs and whether anybody else can > perform it. It might as well be the definition of a cartel.
And, to the extent that the service provider must excel. Competition is healthy for all enterprise.
