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US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet

Posted by kdawson on from the we-don't-want-your-kind-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What happens when a new ISP is started somewhere in the United States that completely blows out of the water all the other ISPs in the area, in terms of price and performance? Apparently, that question is being answered in North Carolina, where Greenlight Inc., a company started by a city government, is trying to offer faster, more reliable, and cheaper Internet service to the local residents. Time Warner and Embarq can't compete. So they are not only lobbying the state government to destroy the upstart competition, but are now using push polling methods to gain support, across the two cities that could benefit from the new ISP, for the 'Level the playing field' legislation they got introduced in the legislature." A local news outlet provides coverage more friendly to the incumbents' point of view.

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  1. Re:Merit by acoustix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I'm in favor of the government doing whatever it can do better then big business"

    The government can't do anything better than the private sector with the exception of national defense.

    You do realize that the government's administration costs of social security, medicare, and other bureaucracies is on the order of 3-4x what it costs the private sector, right?

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  2. Re:Econ 101 by d3ac0n · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You're quoting a Wikipedia article about the nutcase Kevin Phillips? And we're supposed to take you seriously?

    ROFL!

    Kevin Phillips is wrong about everything.

    Phillips is nothing more than a populist hack who uses twisted statistics and hyperbole in his sensationalist books. While I applaud his naked ambition, I wish he wouldn't do it in a manner which so badly misinforms his target audience.

    To put it another way, your numbers are wrong just like Phillips is.

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  3. Re:Econ 101 by Mr.+Firewall · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I used Keven Phillips because he is about as Republican as you can get

    This discussion has nothing to do with American political party affiliation. It is about economics and what works (and does not work) in the Real World®.

    Now please put a white robe on your strawman and burn the whole son of a bitch down.

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