[133895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sun Dec 19 21:25:58 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:25:54 -0600
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D0EBB72.50106@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 06:12:02PM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
>
> And if a competing water service thought they could do better than the
> incumbent, why not let them put in a competing water project? If they
> think they can make money after the cost of the infrastructure, then
> they may be onto something. We don't have to worry that too many
> would join in, the laws of diminishing returns would make it
> unprofitable for the nth company to build out the infrastructure to
> enter the market.
The laws of diminishing returns have already set the bar for the point
at which it's not profitable for a new company to enter the market and
try to compete. Right now the number is roughly 2, cable and dsl, give
or take a few outliers. I do believe the point would be to encourage a
little more competition than that. :)
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