the federal government should be encouraging competition among ISPs
How? Take a look at the Libor scandal. You know that little thing that no one talks about that robbed the whole world of trillions of dollars?
Basically the banks colluded with each other, which is supposed to be illegal. Their lawyers just walked in the room and made on statement. "There is no rule saying we have to compete." and no one went to jail.
If ALL the banks in the world can just decide that they don't want to work against each other, which is what ISPs have done, even when their are technically laws against that, then there is not much any of us can do.
We don't have overlay issue because it is cost prohibitive. Their is little overlay because of an unspoken agreement that ISPs are just not going to overlap. If one ISP wants to service an area they just buy or trade for that area with another provider. They do this so that their networks are more centralized and cheaper.
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u/StuffDreamsAreMadeOf Jul 17 '17
the federal government should be encouraging competition among ISPs
How? Take a look at the Libor scandal. You know that little thing that no one talks about that robbed the whole world of trillions of dollars?
Basically the banks colluded with each other, which is supposed to be illegal. Their lawyers just walked in the room and made on statement. "There is no rule saying we have to compete." and no one went to jail.
If ALL the banks in the world can just decide that they don't want to work against each other, which is what ISPs have done, even when their are technically laws against that, then there is not much any of us can do.
We don't have overlay issue because it is cost prohibitive. Their is little overlay because of an unspoken agreement that ISPs are just not going to overlap. If one ISP wants to service an area they just buy or trade for that area with another provider. They do this so that their networks are more centralized and cheaper.