[133631] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Dec 14 21:08:18 2010
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:08:10 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4D0804C8.60508@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I just see this as a natural progression of what happens of a single
> player with a captive audience due to mergers and attrition. They know
> their customers aren't going anywhere. The only way to "fix" it would be
> to go back to the days when there were a bunch of competing local
> providers.
Wait -- you mean competition that is healthy and fair?!
The FCC would not hear of this.
-- Alex, remembering the days of 8000 ISP's with substantially better custo=
mer service than is available today
