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As with everything, if you want something you either buy it or build it. If the cost to use existing infrastructure is too high, demand for alternatives will
by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
As with everything, if you want something you either buy it or build it. If the cost to use existing infrastructure is too high, demand for alternatives will grow. If this demand can supplied, great, if it can't, then nothing can be done by market or government.
You've correctly pegged me as a Libertarian =), but I don't know who should be the title holders of the existing infrastructure.
- jshen 16y agoThe point is that a new business can't dig up everyones backyard if they think the current phone companies are doing a bad job, even if there is demand. I don't see how the libertarian model can work in this case.
- warrenwilkinson 16y agoCan I give you a link? http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Category=26&id=377 http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Ca... Mary Ruwart (2008 Libertarian Party presidental nomination) answers a very similar question about roads. The short answer is: Most of the infrastructure would be built and maintained by the people who lived next to them. A university and some nearby business(es) might build a high speed connection. Then some adjacent neighborhoods might tie in. As low-cost regional hubs grow, entrepreneurs might focus on cost effective inter-regional infrastructure.