dslextreme
Premium,VIP
join:2001-02-23
Canoga Park, CA
| Network providers sell bandwidth
Why would they want to control supply and limit investment?
Simple, if you limit supply in a growing demand market, prices will skyrocket. Can you say Enron?
This is just a political ploy against net neutrality and market control at it's worst. All the telecom mergers streamlined by the FCC are are now working at full value. |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| Um, there's a bit of a difference there duder- oil is a publicly traded commodity, bits and bytes are not. Speeds have gone up, prices have come down, new WiFi and fiber offerings rolled out.
This after the "streamlined" mergers that required numerous conditions be met and months of hearings and negotiations before winning approval. |
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cmaenginsb
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
| dynodb, you're only looking at the end user level. At the backbone level speeds are not increasing to match the speed increases given to the end users and pricing has definately not come down at the levels or at all.
AT&T however does not control the backbone although they carry a good portion of backbone traffic. As mentioned Level-3 and other carriers like Sprint carry a fair amount of traffic as well. I can remember pre-merger days where SBC DSL on the west coast went out on Sprint's backbone networks. After the merger it's been consolidated.
All those public hearings etc don't mean much because people really don't look at the long term picture and how one merger begets the next until the backbone truely is controlled by a monopoly and we're screwed in the US.
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