Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa
by lbotos on Thursday July 17, 2014 @02:24PM
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I feel like this is what people often forget in the net neutrality debate. The pipe providers have a horse in the race (FiOS TV On Demand, XFinity On Demand) and we need to make sure they aren't rigging the race so to speak.
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Going beyond that, they typically have a monopoly or duopoly as an ISP, while they're subject to competition as a TV provider.
Much of net neutrality can be reduced to "don't let monopoly ISPs leverage that into a monopoly in other services".
If Verizon didn't offer TV, this wouldn't really be a problem. If there were 17 other broadband ISPs to choose from, this wouldn't really be a problem. But Verizon does offer TV and they're one of two choices for me and most of their other customers, so it's a problem.