ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

Tue Aug 23 21:45:53 UTC 2005

On 23-aug-2005, at 23:24, Richard Z wrote:

> US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration

I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own.

> because no carrier is interested in investing and building
> an infrastructure to be shared by their competitors. The only way they
> argue to get the industry out is to have a few large companies with
> little competition.

So I guess the choice is between lots of broadband against monopoly  
prices or less broadband at lower prices?

Now I didn't take all that much economy in school, but something  
there doesn't sound right...