| This is actually the ONLY govt involvement that's needed... ...in telecom. Micro-regulation of ISPs, via competition-killing, innovation-stifling regulation masquerading under the banner of "network neutrality," is a bad idea, and the Obama administration should not pursue it. The government should limit itself to protecting consumers in the one way that is necessary: by protecting competition. If it does that, no other intervention is necessary.
See my blog posting at
»bennett.com/blog/2009/06/whats-t···al-axes/
for more on one area where anticompetitive behavior does need to be looked at -- and it's far more important than whether you can get your favorite model of cell phone on a particular network. |
