[ale] OT: FCC and ISP

[Adrya Stembridge]

I use the word "own" lightly.  The infrastructure was/is subsidized by
taxpayers, so it's not exactly theirs.  The painful solution (for AT&T) is
to return ownership of the lines to the state, which would potentially open
up the market to the competition we all know is needed.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hmm. This is an interesting economic problemo.  Georgia Power and ATL Gas
> Light are not exactly fonts of rectitude in the public interest.  I agree
> that the current ISP oligopoly in most of the country is sinful and bad.
> I'd much rather see ruthless competition on price and service, but it's a
> little difficult to figure how to do that when one company owns much of the
> infrastructure.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
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