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You need to tear up roads to lay cable, meaning you likely want to limit it down to preferably one per neighborhood, as all other infrastructure is. Not doing
by croon 6y ago
You need to tear up roads to lay cable, meaning you likely want to limit it down to preferably one per neighborhood, as all other infrastructure is.
Not doing that would give you this: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/cables-above-street-kathmandu-picture-id529993807 https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/cables-above-street-kat...
So sure, ISPs per one phrasing is "government-granted monopolies", but the only problem was giving it to one private actor, not that government was involved.
It's not that you're technically wrong, but that it's an incomplete and unfair portrayal.
- billytetrud 6y agoWouldn't it be better to set a cost to tearing up the road rather than limit it to one road tearer upper?
- croon 6y agoNo, it would mean any entrant into the ISP market has a cost moat for each neighborhood that inevitably has to be paid by the end user, for no gain other than ISPs owning their own connection, which has no user benefit, and thus, only benefits ISPs in a consumer-hostile way. Instead of just treating infrastructure like infrastructure.