| Well, I'm a member of "the public", and Comcast has been getting my money over the years, so that's "public money" of a sort.  More importantly the cableco (and telco) infrastructure is built on public property (as in, property not owned by the cableco or telco). It's really just a problem of timing. The Cable TV build-out started decades ago, and the rules were different, and they made sense for the time. Now the rules are changing and not in a particularly "fair" way--fair to whom depends on whom you talk to.
Government regulation is bad--it means more taxes; or it's good--consumer protection is of paramount importance to all of us consumers (and I'll let you know when I think my interests are actually being protected over and above the interests of these large corporations... if that ever happens. ) For now, more competition is the best we can hope for expect. |
