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As an actual rural independent FTTH provider, I can say you're wrong. It's incredibly hard to go against the incumbent duopoly of cable/telco, and they will mos
by client4 9y ago
As an actual rural independent FTTH provider, I can say you're wrong. It's incredibly hard to go against the incumbent duopoly of cable/telco, and they will most certainly abuse their market power. Though in a sad way it works in my favor, I've had a number of new customers sign up because they don't want their internet throttled. BigCableCo will create 200 Gb packages and they will exclude their service while counting Netflix. Regular people do deserve access to a free, open, and unmetered Internet. I'm super small and still offer par and faster speeds than the cable company in my area. I'm not losing money because someone is streaming two netflix streams instead of one.
- Spooky23 9y agoThanks for posting... you touch on something that isn’t ever spoken about. The advocates for getting rid of nn regulation always speak in generalities and concepts like attorneys. I have the perspective of having worked for a large institution that is in effect a large ISP. Our network delivery costs are nothing in the scheme of things, and where we own fiber the marginal cost of scaling our network capacity 100x a decade ago was actually below zero as we replaced more expensive, more labor intensive equipment.