said by IowaCowboy:AOL could make a comeback if cable companies were forced to lease bandwidth at cost to competing ISPs like telephone companies have to do so with CLECs.
So ISP should pay the cost of building and maintaining infrastructure then basically let other companies use said infrastructure to undercut them on pricing since they have no infrastructure costs themselves. Yeah makes sense. Sounds totally fair.
If I were and ISP under that scenario why bother making improvements to said infrastructure? Since I would be forced to cut my pricing which means less profits also no matter how low my prices are some people will go to this new competition anyways so that's even more reduced profits. So why spend any money on making improvements? Where is my incentive? Why should I spend millions if not billions so some other company can use MY improvements to take my customers away? It's kind of easy for these guys to say "hey look were cheaper than the evil, greedy cable company" when one doesn't have any infrastructure costs. I also find it ironic to bash the company that is giving you the means to even exist.
Can you imagine if other businesses worked that way?