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Re:Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tec... by JoshTriplett on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:09PM (#10692719)
> If telecoms want to run successful mobile television streaming businesses, they can start selling reasonable amounts of data with their plans.

First-party services fall in a different category; quite aside from net neutrality, that raises potential antitrust concerns.

But partnering with third-party services, especially if offering to do so with arbitrary third-party services, seems far less problematic.

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tec... by jrochkind1 on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:40PM (#10693666)
> First-party services fall in a different category; quite aside from net neutrality, that raises potential antitrust concerns.

Anti-trust law in the US is only relevant if the company has a monopoly.

That's exactly why net neutrality is important, and anti-trust law does not suffice. Because two competing ISP's both charging netflix to get the data you are already paying for to you, are not a monopoly.

(Notwithstanding that where I live Comcast is basically the only broadband option -- I still don't believe they have ever been legally determined to be a monopoly (yet?))

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