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Or how about even the portions of the companies working on infrastructure and the portion that interface/provide service to customers? Why can’t we have Comcast
by pb7 7y ago
Or how about even the portions of the companies working on infrastructure and the portion that interface/provide service to customers? Why can’t we have Comcast Infrastructure build out using those billions of tax payer dollars donated to them and then have an array of smaller players providing competitive service leasing out that infrastructure?
- Someone1234 7y agoIt has worked in other countries. Essentially you take the "last mile" (from home/business to exchange) and either turn it into a full public utility or turn it into a private utility that needs to treat all service providers equally. You ban the private utility from also running an ISP on their own network. You'd still get service from an ISP (inc. Comcast), they would run the exchange side of things, rent space on the last mile utility (fee used for maintaining/upgrading it), and their competition would do the same. Competition would substantially increase, prices would fall, and we'd stop laying redundant cabling just due to "ownership."
- asr 7y agoThis is basically how Texas sells electricity.[1] I'm not an expert on it but it makes a ton of sense. Of course, it may be easier to do this for electricity, where the fundamental technology doesn't change quickly anymore (as far as I know), than for internet connectivity, where we are still undergoing fairly rapid technological change, relatively speaking. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_electricity_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_elec...