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I think you're ignoring the natural monopoly position of last mile internet providers. If there were practical ways of providing choice & competition to this po
by digikata 12y ago
I think you're ignoring the natural monopoly position of last mile internet providers. If there were practical ways of providing choice & competition to this portion of the link, the market for last mile would be competitive, and letting private networks play with tradeoffs in net neutral arrangements vs fast lanes would be self correcting.
However, because of the monopoly position, then I feel that net neutrality provisions are the only way to prevent unfair (and economically unproductive) rent seeking behavior on last-mile links. Last-mile may end up between being something of a misnomer - network wise it would be end-customer to wherever a fanout of network links allows choice/competitiveness to come in.
- digikata 12y agoActually there's another way to preserve the utility of last mile links, but in some ways it's more invasive. That would be to structure the market so the last mile is gov't owned (probably municipal), but access to it is separated along lines of maintenance, operation, and service offerings (across it). This seems like a structure less vulnerable to regulatory capture.