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Re: Regulation
said by elray  : When California was being squeezed by a few companies in Texas back in 2001, the Federal Regulators did nothing. Back in the 90s in NYC when people felt anally raped by the incumbent energy provider, Consolidated Edison, some brilliant mind introduced ESCOs that in essence played middle man between your meter and the local grid. Lower kilowatt rate meant energy savings, right? Except there's still that pesky delivery and transport portion of that bill, and guess who still charges that? You got it, ConEd.
So in essence the FTC once again failed, yes.
With broadband I think demand and increasing number of network providers pressured prices down. FTC was successful in forcing the incumbents to stop sabotaging the competition, but didn't force a pricing model that wouldn't price them out of business. So yea, again FTC failed.
In the end, we all drop our shorts and take it. We can't live without broadband, right? |
