Breaking up a regional monopoly into smaller regional monopolies doesn't work (see baby Bells).
What would be better is requiring the owners of any last mile infrastructure to lease said infrastructure to any other interested operator at cost. This worked with DSL, but the mandate ended when we moved on to other technologies like cable and fiber that had no such requirements.
Instead, we now do the opposite. We give ISPs tax breaks and incentives and piles of cash to "build out the infrastructure" (read: we pay them to invest in their own business), because they threaten to not build it otherwise (read: they're threatening to deliberately decline to grow their business), and for the privilege of paying them to increase their customer and revenue base, we (get this) give them the exclusive right to be the only operator of any similar last mile infrastructure in that area.
How fucking stupid can we get?
We should not allow these agreements to happen, and we should retroactively void any that are currently in place.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Nothing wireless comes close to The experience of a wired fiber connection, especially getting through walls of various materials.
Breaking up a regional monopoly into smaller regional monopolies doesn't work (see baby Bells).
What would be better is requiring the owners of any last mile infrastructure to lease said infrastructure to any other interested operator at cost. This worked with DSL, but the mandate ended when we moved on to other technologies like cable and fiber that had no such requirements.
Instead, we now do the opposite. We give ISPs tax breaks and incentives and piles of cash to "build out the infrastructure" (read: we pay them to invest in their own business), because they threaten to not build it otherwise (read: they're threatening to deliberately decline to grow their business), and for the privilege of paying them to increase their customer and revenue base, we (get this) give them the exclusive right to be the only operator of any similar last mile infrastructure in that area.
How fucking stupid can we get?
We should not allow these agreements to happen, and we should retroactively void any that are currently in place.
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