3 ms·
> The government effectively established monopolies in phone service. When the phone service was a monopoly in the USA it had five nines of uptime and close to
by bitwize 4y ago
> The government effectively established monopolies in phone service.
When the phone service was a monopoly in the USA it had five nines of uptime and close to zero latency.
It's been downhill since then.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoPOTS had massive costs to achieve that low latency. And it's quality over long distances was suspect. It may have also held back innovation because of bad regulation and inertia.