| reply to LegoPower77
Re: Government panacea Uh, you are missing everything.
1) If we didn't have things like antitrust laws, we'd only have a monopoly in telecommunications, because the economies of scale would tilt it that way.
2) Broadband isn't treated like a public utility at all in this country. No ISP is a rate of return or price cap regulated provider. Internet service is not a rate regulated service, even when offered by the few rate-of-return carriers left (rural ILECs, who are RoR on historical network costs, but only POTS rates are regulated; most telephone providers are incentive-regulate ("price-cap") on their phone services, due to the issue you hint at here).
So yeah, you really should learn a little bit about how the markets here in the U.S. actually intersect with regulation. |
