I would like to see the infrastructure owned by municipalities and leased to providers. Open it up to anyone who wants to provide content/service. Seems to me that would give the consumer more choice and lower prices. Like Jim mentioned, the infrastructure costs are big so it may not be practical.
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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of steelville
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:28 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Net Neutrality
It all depends on if you consider network access a utility or luxury.
At one point, I think it was strictly a luxury ... but now, it's definitely a utility.
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I would agree with that at this point..
The free market should only apply to providing the pipe ... not what
services the pipe will give you better access to. david
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Maybe the idea is separating the piping from the content which I guess is what this is about.
I think there's something wrong too, with the fact that the smaller ISP's from times past have been squeezed out apparently.
Local governments that gave monopoly franchises to cable companies, and we that let our mayors and city councils go along with this, I think sometimes that was a mistake. Let anybody build out that wants to.
Comcast serves around here, but AT&T has bought Bell South and I was informed by a door-to-door rep that AT&T is laying fiber down. I think there will be a cable competitor. Finally. Stay tuned...
--Alan
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