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You overestimate the incentive of Comcast et al to improve what they have in place now. They have essentially a monopoly in most of their markets over what is a
by skywhopper 12y ago
You overestimate the incentive of Comcast et al to improve what they have in place now. They have essentially a monopoly in most of their markets over what is a utility service.
The priority at this moment has to be prserving the de facto status quo of net neutrality. Allowing Comcast to use their monopoly position to extract rents from their competitors like Netflix is not a precedent we can let stand. If we go down that road, the Internet will quickly become a very different place.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoExactly. Cable co's are in a great position. They have a lot of upstream bandwidth available to upgrade their services, they have DOCSIS 3 or better modems in the field; barring other shortcomings in their networks they can roll out upgrades if competition ever arrives, probably killing it.