Competitor access to telco fiber would fix “net neutrality”

Re:Competitor access to telco fiber would fix “net neutrality” by jauer on Saturday November 10, 2012 @06:45PM (#4768174)

Except that there is no legally enforced duopoly. By and large the only legal restriction on building a network in the US are related to construction permits & zoning. Cable franchises restricted competition for wireline video delivery but that got tossed a few years back.

If you would like to bury your own wires and use them to deliver Internet, you can. It is just like any other significant construction effort where the costs & paperwork may be daunting to some.

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Re:Competitor access to telco fiber would fix “net neutrality” by javert on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:00AM (#4773315)

By and large the only legal restriction on building a network in the US are related to construction permits & zoning

I was presuming that when the company agreed to build a local network, it got an agreement from the local authority that nobody else would be granted a permit to do so.

That's still a legally enforced duopoly. Or are you saying, that acutally doesn't happen?

Cable franchises restricted competition for wireline video delivery but that got tossed a few years back.

I am guessing that's because the phone companies also wanted to deliver video over the wire. So this still wouldn't break the duopoly.

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