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How so? If there's a market for net neutrality, and if there's sufficient competition, someone will provide a neutral option. It just needs to be cheap enough f
by beatgammit 7y ago
How so? If there's a market for net neutrality, and if there's sufficient competition, someone will provide a neutral option. It just needs to be cheap enough for a competitor to enter the market for that to happen.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoThe capital required to build a competing network is immense. It will never happen, and there’s way more money in getting into the existing grift.
- austhrow743 7y agoDid you not read the part about the government owning the physical infrastructure?
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoI did lose track of who was arguing what, yes.
- namdnay 7y agoI wouldn’t be so sure... look at the cable tv market in the US. Surely there is consumer demand for clear and simple pricing and per-channel choice. And yet the free market has not provided this.
- azeotropic 7y agoIn the US, the cable tv market is subject to the exact same local monopolies as the isp market; in fact, they are often the same company.