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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by leetcrew on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:55AM (#16781267)
> For example you can be on a NTT fiber line but use a different ISP on that line

as an american living in a major city, this exceeds my wildest dreams of internet service.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by oarsinsync on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:19PM (#16781951)
It's the difference between a regulated pro-consumer free market, and a lobbyist controlled market presenting a duopoly as a free market.

It's one of the negative consequences of mainstream media / political free market rhetoric considering regulation harmful.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by rayiner on Sunday April 08, 2018 @01:05AM (#16784700)
The difference is that NTT lost money for years offering wholesale fiber below cost: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.489... (pages 11, 16). It could do that because it has a national near-monopoly in the wholesale space (it get some money from every subscriber, no matter what ISP they use), Japan's economy offers much lower returns than the U.S.'s (making low return infrastructure investments relatively more attractive), and NTT is 1/3 owned by the government (which ordered it to deploy fiber, regardless of profits).
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by ekianjo on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:00PM (#16784164)
> It's one of the negative consequences of mainstream media / political free market rhetoric considering regulation harmful.

Well regulation can be harmful if it protects the incumbents and prevents the introduction of new players. Lobbyists are usually pushing for more regulation, not the opposite.

It's not about regulation or not regulation, it's about what kind of regulation makes sense for a free market.

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