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How could it? Google would own the infrastructure in the city making competition extremely difficult. New monopolist, same as the old monopolist.
by awaythrowme 14y ago
How could it? Google would own the infrastructure in the city making competition extremely difficult. New monopolist, same as the old monopolist.
- gtaylor 14y agoExcept that the "new monopolist" is currently thrashing the "old monopolist". It's almost like they are having to... compete. Also, they bought out a municipal fiber outfit. They're not kicking competitors out. They're just completely outclassing them.
- awaythrowme 14y agoThe problem is that when a company owns the last mile it has a natural monopoly. An incumbent being overthrown isn't the same as having long lasting competition.
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- cookiecaper 14y agoProvo actually already has a fairly significant fiber rollout from multiple failed local and municipal coalitions to bring 100Mbps+ residential connections to the area. I believe these lines are owned by the city, and that Google plans on utilizing the extant network as far as possible. It is pretty likely that this won't be the typical municipal telecom monopoly that we've seen to attract cable providers and the like.
- awaythrowme 14y agoThe point is that the lines will no longer be owned by the city.