User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?)
Stephen Satchell
list at satchell.net
Sat Aug 10 01:29:53 UTC 2019
On 8/9/19 4:03 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> ...apparently Amazon has become a public utility
> now?
>
> I look forward with bemusement to the PUC
> tariff filings for AWS pricing. ^_^;;
Don't scoff too hard. How do you think that telephone service became a
utility? Utilities didn't grow on trees, they became utilities when
some bureaucrats convinced legislators to "promote" successful service
providers to utility status. Especially when such providers are
providing a service as a monopoly. Particularly a "natural" monopoly.
AWS has competitors, but if the number of providers remains small (like
fingers of one hand) the politicians wil step in.
And it wouldn't be the PUC, as Amazon is a company national in scope.
It would be something like the FCC. Public Utility Commissions are at
the local (usually county) or state level.
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