[133885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Fields)
Sun Dec 19 20:20:55 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:20:49 -0500
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20101220010924.GA73595@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/19/2010 20:09, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> They have been granted a monopoly by the local government for
> wireline services, and in exchange for that monopoly need to act
> in the public's interest. In the TV world this is things like
> running the local community interest channel, and paying a franchise
> fee. In the IP world we're still developing the criteria, but it's
> not unreasonable to think they might have some government imposed
> requirements there as well.
The government granting a monopoly is the problem, and more lame government
regulation is not the solution. Let everyone compete on a level playing
field, not by allowing one company to buy a monopoly enforced by men with guns.
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