[133721] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Dec 16 11:29:07 2010
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:58 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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
