Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Thu Dec 16 16:28:58 UTC 2010

  On 16/12/10 8:17 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote:
>> Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as 
>> winners.
>>   DSL competition
>> didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic
>> bandwidth available
>> on other media and JC's previously-noted fickle and lazy consumers.
>
> Apparently, you've never owned or run an ISP in the past dozen years....
>
>   Pacific Bell Telephone v. LinkLine, 07-512
>
> It lost *precisely* by regulation: Google "Tauzin-Dingell".

When you hear some congresscritter talking about legislating net 
neutrality, point out that they wouldn't need to do anything regarding 
"net neutrality" if they would simply legislate to provide for fair and 
open access to existing infrastructure (copper, cable, fiber) instead of 
passing incumbent-friendly legislation that limits competition.

jc