On 16/12/10 8:17 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote:
Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as
winners.
DSL competition
didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic
bandwidth available
on other media and JC's previously-noted fickle and lazy consumers.
Apparently, you've never owned or run an ISP in the past dozen years....
Pacific Bell Telephone v. LinkLine, 07-512
It lost *precisely* by regulation: Google "Tauzin-Dingell".
When you hear some congresscritter talking about legislating net
neutrality, point out that they wouldn't need to do anything regarding
"net neutrality" if they would simply legislate to provide for fair and
open access to existing infrastructure (copper, cable, fiber) instead of
passing incumbent-friendly legislation that limits competition.
jc
