[171331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sat Apr 26 19:08:50 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 18:08:40 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
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On 4/26/2014 3:01 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
> wrote:
>> Monopolies can not persist without regulation.
>
> This is absolutely false. Regulating monopolies CAN protect
> monopolies, but that’s not always the outcome.
>
> Monopolies absolutely can persist without regulation. Except in the
> most highly dense population areas, there is not a sufficient market
> to support the deployment of more than one copy of a given media type
> to that population. As a result, there is, in most places, a natural
> monopoly in each media type, whether that’s electrical, water, cable,
> twisted pair, fiber, etc.
Sounds like the market at work, not monopoly power......I've never heard
the term "monopoly" used where the market contains all the players that
want to play.
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