Appeals Court upholds FCC anti-line-sharing rules
October 18th, 2007 by Sonny
Appeals Court upholds FCC anti-line-sharing rules
Why? I have exactly 1 phone company, and 1 cable company offering broadband to my house. I’m not in the boonies. How is this enough competition? If the incumbents aren’t forced to share they won’t. period.
Broadband is a natural monopoly, rife with market failure and barriers to entering the market. It needs government regulation to prevent the kind of stagnation that’s normal here, but not in Korea, Japan and Canada. That’s why they have higher rates of broadband penetration and are moving more rapidly into higher speeds than here in the US. Monopolies do not lend themselves to innovation and innovation is where the future is.
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