“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″

Re:“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell Sys... by zeteo on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @03:51PM (#14311061)

Local politics might be bad, but it'd be far worse to have it run by Google. They'd never pick up your customer support calls; they'd be more concerned with using ML to figure out when you sh*t and when you shower (valuable data for advertisers, you see). Also they'd randomly remove you from the network all the time for no apparent reason.

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Re:“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell Sys... by giggles_giggles on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:38PM (#14311961)

I see where you're coming from (and your comment is very funny) however my experience with Google Fiber as an ISP and Google's Project Fi as an MVNO is pretty much the opposite. They've been great, including customer service. And those are utilities, essentially, no? That's the whole argument behind Net Neutrality, that ISPs are providing a utility.

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Re:“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell Sys... by zeteo on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:19PM (#14317215)

Google Fiber is relatively small. Google itself was not a bad company when it was small ("don't be evil" and all that).

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