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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by jauco on Saturday April 16, 2016 @02:22AM (#11509541)
We tried that in the netherlands. Our approach did not work out that well. In all cases there's the maintainer of the hardware (cable) and a lot of "providers" on that hardware.

I'm not well informed enough to know why, but in all cases (cable, railroad, powerlines, ether frequencies) the system devolved into a state where the "provider" linked to the hardware maintainer is the dominant player still.

I'm not syaing it can't work, just that over here it didn't really work.

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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by greggman on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:12PM (#11511849)
It worked amazingly in Japan

Practically overnight (metaphorically) it went from only metered dial up or expensive isdn to ultra fast dsl. There was huge competition mostly lead by SoftBank Japan. The actually handed out routers at subway station exits. Every time their competitors including the old monopoly matched their speed they'd double it. It was awesome to watch

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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by pavedwalden on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:40AM (#11509854)
Why does one provider get a privileged relationship with the maintainer? I'm surprised that in all those industries there was never a complete division of control.
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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by Nullabillity on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:25AM (#11509925)
I used to live in a town with a similar system, which worked great. I suppose the difference was that the maintainer (the municipality power company) was never an ISP themselves.
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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by Retric on Saturday April 16, 2016 @11:35AM (#11510944)
That's what anti monopoly laws are for. You can either provide infrastructure, or sell to customers not both.
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Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality by cesarbs on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:02AM (#11509620)
I'm kinda bummed to hear that. I have mentioned how it's done in the Netherlands on several occasions. I thought it had worked - sad it didn't.
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