[83749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Aug 23 17:49:12 2005
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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:45:53 +0200
To: Richard Z <rzheng@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 23-aug-2005, at 23:24, Richard Z wrote:
> US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration
I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own.
> because no carrier is interested in investing and building
> an infrastructure to be shared by their competitors. The only way they
> argue to get the industry out is to have a few large companies with
> little competition.
So I guess the choice is between lots of broadband against monopoly
prices or less broadband at lower prices?
Now I didn't take all that much economy in school, but something
there doesn't sound right...
