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Great plan! They allow their infrastructure to decay, then cities/counties seize their infrastructure through eminent domain and run them as local utilities. Th
by mullingitover 13y ago
Great plan! They allow their infrastructure to decay, then cities/counties seize their infrastructure through eminent domain and run them as local utilities. The local utilities get regulated as monopolies, so they won't be sending every single deferred upgrade dollar ("profits") to their shareholders. A new crop of ISPs all have access to the network at regulated rates, people get a choice of ISP, competition blooms in the desert.
Or, y'know, the FCC rolls over and gives them what they want, and they continue to be less innovative and spend less on network upgrades as per usual, and they spend generously on brib--er, lobbying and campaign financing.