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The government ensures that everyone gets postal and land-line telephone service if they want it. Considering how TCP/IP packets are used, are they really much
by pivo 18y ago
The government ensures that everyone gets postal and land-line telephone service if they want it. Considering how TCP/IP packets are used, are they really much different from those other services?
In this case it's not about picking a winner, it's about making sure people have access to resources. Once there's choice the monopoly can be disposed of, like we did with Ma Bell and the postal service.
- gojomo 18y agoThe US has not disposed of the postal service monopoly. It remains illegal to compete with the USPS in the delivery of "first-class" mail. Other services also may not use the same mailboxes, even if the customer wants them to. And the USPS has neither been privatized nor broken into competing units.
- pivo 18y agoTrue, we obviously didn't get rid of the post office or its legal monopoly but we did get rid of its practical monopoly with companies like FedEx, UPS, etc. and of course with email.
- ivankirigin 18y agoFiber could cost billions, and in the end, wireless might be a much better option. This is clearly a make-work project, and that is simply a waste of my money.
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- astine 18y agoIt may be a poor investment, but it is not make-work.