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What, you mean go after their friends? Are you crazy? It’s complete nonsense. Telecoms have been fucking people over for decades and yet we still see mergers r
by pb7 6y ago
What, you mean go after their friends? Are you crazy?
It’s complete nonsense. Telecoms have been fucking people over for decades and yet we still see mergers resulting in 3 providers going to 2 despite it being downright impossible to start a new one (see: Google Fiber), that is if you’re even lucky enough to have more than one in your region.
- atomi 6y agoIt's clearly all politics. The federal government decides the winners and losers.
- nemothekid 6y agoThis is the biggest fear I have about antitrust. The reason Google is likely being targeted is because they have not stuffed enough pockets for most politicians to turn a blind eye. Sure, some well meaning officials may enact useful policy to carve out a competitive space for smaller players. What everyone else, however, will learn is to stuff congress with more and more lobbyists.
- kortilla 6y agoGoogle fiber was fine. Google just stopped caring once they realized how little ROI is in the field. Turns out being a last mile ISP is a pretty low margin business.
- pb7 6y agoGoogle Fiber was never about ROI. Fiber stopped expanding after encountering legal resistance in market after market from the preexisting telecom (take note the singular, because there’s usually just one). Every market they successfully pushed through, the existing telecom dropped prices and improved service to stay competitive. These competition-stifling monopolies are costing taxpayers tons of money when the taxpayers were the ones that funded the infrastructure the incumbents are holding out on now.
- bretpiatt 6y agoStarlink can't get here too soon. https://www.starlink.com https://www.starlink.com Satellite eliminates local regulatory capture from blocking new entrants. LEO eliminates the latency issues with current satellite.