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>"1. Excessive industry lobbying power;" Google has long cultivated a substantial lobbying effort in Washington. In fact it outspent any other single private c
by bogomipz 8y ago
>"1. Excessive industry lobbying power;"
Google has long cultivated a substantial lobbying effort in Washington. In fact it outspent any other single private company in it's lobbying in 2017. [1]
>"2. Anti-competitive exclusivity agreements;"
There's no such thing at either the municipal level, state level or otherwise. Exclusivity agreements for carriers don't exist.
>"3. The ability to stall rollouts indefinitely in the absence of “one touch make ready” policies;"
Telephone poles which were an issue in the Austin rollout are not an issue in many(most?) US cities where there are no telephone poles and cable vaults and ducting are underground and not owned by the incumbents.
>"4. Required cooperation with and permission from governments who feel less pressured to move quickly once their residents have at least one incumbent provider;"
Is there any evidence of this? Politician love to take credit for innovations and improvements that they had very little to do with.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/23/google-outspent-every-other-company-on-federal-lobbying-in-2017/?utm_term=.ab51555294ee https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/23...