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No, "markets would work it out" argument doesn't work here. ISPs are monopolized businesses in USA. There are only so many cables you can lay out and only so ma
by sytelus 9y ago
No, "markets would work it out" argument doesn't work here. ISPs are monopolized businesses in USA. There are only so many cables you can lay out and only so many players who have capital to invest all that money. When one player succeeds in this game they buy off appropriate amount of politicians to close doors for others. All the ISP "choices" in USA you see is just an illusion where some re-sellers re-brands exact same bandwidth under their fancy names and ads.
- adventured 9y ago> When one player succeeds in this game they buy off appropriate amount of politicians to close doors for others. Then what you're talking about is not a market at all. You're directly saying several times over that the problem is the lack of any semblance of a market, that the government is the specific problem. Besides that, reasonably speaking, there are not only so many cables you can lay in the ground. That infrastructure non-problem has had an extraordinarily simple fix for decades: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/nationwide-fiber-proposed-law-could-add-broadband-to-road-projects/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/natio...