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> For example you can be on a NTT fiber line but use a different ISP on that line as an american living in a major city, this exceeds my wildest dreams of inte
by leetcrew 9y ago
> For example you can be on a NTT fiber line but use a different ISP on that line
as an american living in a major city, this exceeds my wildest dreams of internet service.
- oarsinsync 9y agoIt's the difference between a regulated pro-consumer free market, and a lobbyist controlled market presenting a duopoly as a free market. It's one of the negative consequences of mainstream media / political free market rhetoric considering regulation harmful.
- ekianjo 9y ago> It's one of the negative consequences of mainstream media / political free market rhetoric considering regulation harmful. Well regulation can be harmful if it protects the incumbents and prevents the introduction of new players. Lobbyists are usually pushing for more regulation, not the opposite. It's not about regulation or not regulation, it's about what kind of regulation makes sense for a free market.
- rayiner 9y agoThe difference is that NTT lost money for years offering wholesale fiber below cost: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.489.3371&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.489... (pages 11, 16). It could do that because it has a national near-monopoly in the wholesale space (it get some money from every subscriber, no matter what ISP they use), Japan's economy offers much lower returns than the U.S.'s (making low return infrastructure investments relatively more attractive), and NTT is 1/3 owned by the government (which ordered it to deploy fiber, regardless of profits).