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Re: Net neutrality and please wait in the lobby
>>Maybe what is needed is more legislation, not less. This is politically impossible right now in the U.S. >>And not controls over what the Telcos and cable companies do with net neutrality but controls to force them to open up their monopoly to competing 3rd parties. eg >>- Force them to sell wholesale bandwidth to 3rd party ISPs - Force them to sell space in their switching centres to 3rd party ISPs to unbundle the local loop. Also impossible. The telcos, like the copyright giants, have successfully positioned their holdings as "simple property". They built the infrastructure. It's their property. Why shoud government come in and tell them how they can and cannot make money with that property? That's anti-business, anti-market, etc. Won't fly. >>When direct competitors are selling net neutral broadband, how will the Telcos be able to offer hobbled broadband? Agreed there. >>The problem here is a common one to all utilities that have a monopoly hold over a single connection on the last mile. Phones, electricity, gas, water, sewage, cable TV, etc. The government has to control this for the common good. This is where we are advantaged. Local governments can open the poles and buried conduits to other connections, just as they did with Cable TV thirty years ago. At least here in the U.S., it's the only way. There are responses to this message:
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