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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:58 -0800
On 16/12/10 8:17 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote:Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as winners.DSL competition didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic bandwidth available on other media and JC's previously-noted fickle and lazy consumers.Apparently, you've never owned or run an ISP in the past dozen years.... Pacific Bell Telephone v. LinkLine, 07-512 It lost *precisely* by regulation: Google "Tauzin-Dingell".
When you hear some congresscritter talking about legislating net neutrality, point out that they wouldn't need to do anything regarding "net neutrality" if they would simply legislate to provide for fair and open access to existing infrastructure (copper, cable, fiber) instead of passing incumbent-friendly legislation that limits competition.
jc
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