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The article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reach
by mewse-hn 3mo ago
The article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reaches a central office, access can be sold and metered off to a free market, just like capitalism.
What most of us in the "free world" are suffering with is blood sucking parasites that own the pipe into the house and charge prices aligned with that fact. It's anti-capitalism in the guise of capitalism.
- slopinthebag 3mo agoWhy would fiber to the house be a natural monopoly?
- andriamanitra 3mo agoBecause the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers to the same house would be tremendously wasteful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
- slopinthebag 3mo agoBut you wouldn’t get 20 different fibres, just one sold to 19 different companies.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoOverbuilding makes no financial sense for companies
- Hikikomori 3mo agoWhy would roads to your house be a natural monopoly?