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How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service
alexander_686 writes "Bloomberg is running a series of articles from Susan Crawford about the stagnation of internet access in the U.S., and why consumers in America pay more for slower service. Quoting: 'The two kinds of Internet-access carriers, wired and wireless, have found they can operate without competing with each other. The cable industry and AT&T-Verizon have divided up the world much as Comcast and Time Warner did; only instead of, "You take Philadelphia, I'll take Minneapolis," it's, "You take wired, I'll take wireless." At the end of 2011, the two industries even agreed to market each other’s services.' I am a free market type of guy. I do recognize the abuse that can come from natural monopolies that utilities tend to have, but I have never considered this type of collusion before. To fix the situation, Crawford recommends that the U.S. 'move to a utility model, based on the assumption that all Americans require fiber-optic Internet access at reasonable prices.'"
``I am a free market type of guy... but I have never considered this type of collusion before."
no shit. try doing some homework. here is a quote from that rampant communist, Adam Smith:
``People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary." — book I, ch. 10, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published 1776.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
It could be worse. It could be like Australia where they have fast downloads but roflbad upload speeds.
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America definitely has this problem as well.
It costs $500+/mo to get about 3meg upload in far northern california.
On the payroll...
You're funny. The last string of balanced budgets was under Clinton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CBO_-_Revenues_and_Outlays_as_percent_GDP.png
Which were not passed by Democrats. The Republicans controlled Congress at the time.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison