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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by em3rgent0rdr on Friday June 29, 2018 @08:20PM (#17428826)
> "it's dangerous to let those with deep pockets prioritize their traffic over mine"

If only a finite amount of bandwidth is available to the world, then yes, the rich will be able to spend more to take bandwidth from us.

However more cable can always be added, so what would actually happen is that the pie would grow.

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Re:Massive Comcast Outage Hits the US by paranoidrobot on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:10PM (#17429292)
> However more cable can always be added, so what would actually happen is that the pie would grow.

This assumption is the same one behind energy grids, and assumes an ideal world with no bad actors.

Instead, what happens is that incumbent players with the deepest pockets buy up all the (relevant) competition and then corner the market on capacity.

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