Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
by richiebful1 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:33AM
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A lot of municipalities in the US have high pole attachment fees, or even worse, sell a monopoly on pole attachment to telecoms.
13 states cap pole attachment fees at cost or at a fixed number. [1] I'd be interested to see this pass in Pennsylvania.
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/ad-hoc-commitee-surv...]
Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
by BLKNSLVR on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:41AM
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Don't feel too bad, in Australia one Government party actively sabotaged the national optic fiber infrastructure project of the other Government party.
Australia's current government has literally held the country back a decade in network infrastructure progress, one of the key foundations of any country's economic future.
It IS a national shame.
Re:Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
by bifrost on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:50PM
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> There is active work and lots of money spent by large ISPs and telecoms to prevent deployment of additional networks
You mean lobbying by telcos to make permitting and other things expensive in municipalities and counties.
> This is what happens when you let the state decide who is allowed to offer certain types of services
Yes. Absolutely this.
It really should be a national shame, how much the US has permitted AT&T and Verizon and Comcast and Time Warner et al to derail the correct functioning of a market so insanely critical to the growth of prosperity (both personal as well as the wider economy).
This is what happens when you let the state decide who is allowed to offer certain types of services: pretty soon the large, well-funded incumbents take over the state-run process about deciding who is allowed in the market, and enact policies and regulations that make it cost millions to serve even a single customer. This is peanuts for large existing companies with billions of dollars of recurring revenue, but impossible for new entrants.
The guy who runs the FCC and decides this kind of stuff, for example, used to work for Verizon, one of the largest telcos in the country.
In most of the US, it is basically illegal to start a new ISP.