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CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories
mpicpp sends word that CenturyLink has accused Comcast of restricting competition in the development of internet infrastructure. CenturyLink asked the FCC to block the acquisition of Time Warner Cable to prevent Comcast from further abusing its size and power. For example, Comcast is urging local authorities to deny CenturyLink permission to build out new infrastructure if they can't reach all of a city's residents during the initial buildout. Of course, a full buildout into a brand new market is much more expensive than installing connections a bit at a time. Comcast argues that CenturyLink shouldn't be able to cherry-pick the wealthy neighborhoods and avoid the poor ones. CenturyLink points out that no other ISP complains about this, and says allowing the merger would let Comcast extend these tactics to regions currently operated by Time Warner Cable.
No, because it would mean only Republicans would be allowed Internet access. Here in Seattle, Comcast was granted a monopoly without the requirement that hey actually offer service to everyone. So what happened is that they refuse to offer service to anyone that isn't weathly and typically white. The Republicans are stupid so they buy bundled services that they don't need. They know the reset of us will do research because we're smarter and because of need since we need to spend our money more wisely, so they refuse to offer us service.