[169934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sholes, Joshua)
Fri Mar 21 10:14:12 2014
From: "Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:13:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: <532BBFEA.70509@cox.net>
To: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? Or should
we be moving to a world where, say, a dozen or more separate companies are
all running fiber or coax on the poles on my street in an effort to get to
my house?
IMHO, the only way to get real competition on the last mile is to have the
actual fiber/wire infrastructure being owned by a neutral party that's
required to pass anyone's traffic.
--=20
Josh Sholes
On 3/21/14, 12:28 AM, "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
>On 3/20/2014 10:47 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong "competition" will require
>> "regulation".
>
>"regulation" prevents "competition". That is why people want regulation.
>
>Look at this thread at the people who do not want to be competed-with at
>L1, for example.
>
>--=20
>Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics
> of System Administrators:
>Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to
> learn from their mistakes.
> (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
>
