[133999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Tue Dec 21 11:28:58 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:28:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <928D2C2B-0F1F-47AE-87DB-87DF48F6A532@delong.com>
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----- "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> Yeah... I'd rather see it done in such a way that there is a
> prohibition of common ownership or management. Essentially,
> require that the stock be split and each current owner receives
> one share in each company with any shareholders who own more than 3%
> of the companies having 180 days to divest from one company or the
> other, or, reduce their total investment in both below 3% with a
> requirement that the infrastructure provider not retain any portion
> of the name of the original company and no relationship other than
> supplier to the service provider company.
>
> Obviously, this probably won't happen. The Telcos in the US have far
> too powerful a lobbying force, but, I think that would be the best
> thing for the consumers.
Presumably for both the consumers *and* every company involved in network services who doesn't have the luck of a historical last-mile monopoly.
Regards,
Tim.
