PBS: High Fiber (the future of broadband)

[matt0611]

the logical conclusion is to destroy all government. We certainly wont have monopolies then.

SMART.

A great deal of monopolies are created by the government.

Its pretty hard in a free market for one company to become a monopoly.

 

[JSt0rm]

A great deal of monopolies are created by the government.

Its pretty hard in a free market for one company to become a monopoly.

So you think if we remove government there will be no monopolies?

 

[0roo0roo]

Sigh, what is preventing you from laying your own fiber and leasing it out to others? Hell, build you a nice optical network and you'll have customers banging down your doors to use it!

Go make that money chicken shit.

What? You don't want to invest? You don't have the capital and can't prove return? Chickenshit. Go for it, chickenshit.

"ohhhhh, but monopoly"

So lay your own fiber chickenshit, light it up and provide service or use what's already in ground, chickenshit and find customers, chickenshit.

I know huh, why don't you run your own military Build your own water treatment/sewage plant while you are at it. Just dig up miles of sewer and water piping, i'm sure you can find investors!

Its that easy.

Like it or not these are natural monopoly situations that require regulation or else abuse is a given. Add the fact that now these monopolies have their hand in distributing media as cable companies and the perverse incentives to not deliver good service to customers only starts to pile up on itself.

 

[lothar]

the logical conclusion is to destroy all government. We certainly wont have monopolies then.

SMART.

That's better than what we have now.

In 2005, the City of Baltimore, Maryland entered into a 12-year exclusive contract with Comcast Cable, giving the company complete control of the city's cable-television franchise. What did the city get out of that deal? A pittance paid toward creating more "robust" public-access television programming, and an agreement that the city would have partial regulatory control over the company via a Cable Communications Advisory Commission. In March of this year, City Councilman William Cole (D-11th District) revealed that the commission, which should have 14 members, is not currently in operation. Which means that Comcast, which provides cable television, high-speed internet, and digital phone services in the city, gets to operate with little to no oversight. Ask around and you'll find that many of your friends living in the city have horror stories about bad customer service, incorrect billing, and myriad other problems--but nowhere to take those complaints but to the company itself, which has no real competitors and thus no incentive to improve. We know that Cole and other City Council members want to hold hearings on whether we can get Verizon's FiOS service in the city before Comcast's monopoly contract is up, but we'd settle for some assurance that someone, anyone, in city government would listen to our complaints about Comcast and put some pressure on the company to treat the city residents who are stuck with it with some respect.

http://www.dailytech.com/Time+Warne...+AntiMunicipal+Internet+Bill/article21696.htm

FCC selling of various wireless spectrum range to telecoms instead of leasing them out which achieves nothing but essentially creating and fostering monopolies

You're doing a good job with all those examples government...Keep up the good work.
We clearly need to appoint more of you.

 

[Perknose]

Umm, paid with taxpayer money and didn't have to pay tax on it? Damn right they'll get sued.

Why do you hate America? WHY do you hate WE THE PEOPLE when we (the people) get together and do something YOU don't like?

Your attitude is fetid fowl feces, otherwise known as CHICKENSHIT!

 

[Nebor]

That's better than what we have now.

You're doing a good job with all those examples government...Keep up the good work.
We clearly need to appoint more of you.

That's what happens when right wing teapartiers are in charge. They let corporations run roughshod over the citizens.

 

[lothar]

That's what happens when right wing teapartiers are in charge. They let corporations run roughshod over the citizens.

 

[MarkXIX]

Somebody can win a prize if they can tell me if fiber is broadband or not.

Uhhh...fiber is only a transmission medium. I can send 28.8 Kbps across a fiber if I wanted to.

Do I get a chicken that lays golden eggs for this? Or just more chickenshit?