LogFAQs > #892209701

Gamer99z posted...

But it's not just podunk towns. A large amount of the country has regional monopolies and duopolies.
To make an off topic point, it's hypocritical that many Trump supporters and people on the right made a big deal about supporting the EC which got Trump elected, talking about how important it is for middle America and the rust belt to he represented properly be even if they have less people and not be overpowered by the major cities and likes of Cali/NY. Then there's something like this where a good portion of middle America and the rust belt is fucked by these regional monopolies and now suddenly all those people in middle America don't matter and should take a backseat because major cities don't have have this problem.

I have no clue how the EC fits into this, but middle America isn't fucked because of ISPs. Wanting the internet as a service to work like a utility would basically guarantee a state of affairs like electric companies have now: no competition anywhere and they can raise their prices ad nauseum and you can't do anything about it.

Gamer99z posted...

Because right now ISP's will just buy out little guys or even do more scummy things like throw frivolous lawsuits at them that take years and keep them from breaking ground and losing money as well as doing things like what my current ISP did and make a deal with the city out here for what iirc is an exclusive contract until 2020 or something. What regulations need to be removed to fix that problem that many Americans fall into?

Literally none of this is prevented by Net Neutrality.

However, making internet service a utility WILL eventually lead to worse regional monopolies than we have now. Again, like water and power.
---

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
-George Orwell