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Possibly but it hinges a lot on drastically increased in an often prohibitively expensive commercial sector and it would take a lot longer than enforcing one, a
by codyb 12y ago
Possibly but it hinges a lot on drastically increased in an often prohibitively expensive commercial sector and it would take a lot longer than enforcing one, and then encouraging competition to bring speeds up and overall cost of bandwidth down for consumers.
And there's been lots of no compete agreements among these ISPs and I'm sure there's other examples out there where the "competition" makes it better for all of them at the expense of consumers.
- chaostheory 12y agowell there was one attempt by Clinton to have the gov fund increased capacity... and the telecoms just ended up taking the money without doing anything http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026... I believe the Obama admin tried it again. I don't know the full result, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened.