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It's natural because there's only so much bandwidth and you can't make more.
by Kluny 9y ago
It's natural because there's only so much bandwidth and you can't make more.
- icebraining 9y agoThat describes any hard commodity, no matter how common. Is water a "natural monopoly"?
- ionised 9y agoYes. It is a utility.
- drexlspivey 9y agoHow about plutonium?
- 4ad 9y agoPlutonium is not traded on the free market.
- icebraining 9y agoNo, that's water pipes to your home. You can buy water in many, many, many other ways.
- ionised 9y agoI assumed you meant water piped to a home as broadband is cabled to a home. I can't go out and buy a bottle of WiFi to use how I see fit.
- Spivak 9y agoSure, but you can buy alternative methods of accessing the internet to keep this metaphor going. They're expensive and aren't as convenient but that's true of having to go to the store to buy bottles of water as well.
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- Kluny 9y agoThe pipes that service a city are.