Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government

Re:Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the g... by masklinn on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:31PM (#2710341)

> After establishing it as a federal monopoly in 1934. (And in TFA, we're talking even worse entities.)

In order to regulate it (putting it under jurisdiction of the FCC) as Bell was already a natural monopoly by this point, even after the Kingsbury Commitment.

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Re:Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the g... by Perceval on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:47PM (#2710417)

At the top of this thread, ojbyrne says we need to have government regulation in order to create competition.

Here you say that we needed regulation to make AT&T a de jure national monopoly so that we could further regulate AT&T.

So, regulation grants monopolies, then regulates those monopolies, then also regulates more competition into the monopoly market it had previously granted? This is good governance?

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Re:Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the g... by masklinn on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:50PM (#2710432)

Regulation did not create AT&T's monopoly. AT&T did that, the government later sanctioned it in order to try and better regulate the monopolistic company (it failed).

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