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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by pluma on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:20PM (#8986186)
Wait, you can't chose between different power companies in the US? Even in socialist Europe that isn't normally a problem. I can choose between at least a dozen different providers of electricity, and at least half a dozen providers of Internet and landline telephone access. And that's just in the rural parts of the country. Granted most of the infrastructure is centralized, but that doesn't stop competition on extending it.

Maybe the problem isn't whether Internet access should be regulated as a utility service but simply that utility services in the US are crap?

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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by wglb on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:30PM (#8986288)
There are choices for service providers in many places in the US. However, there is one set of power lines, and I would presume that most power losses are due to the power line failures.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by lutorm on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:30PM (#8986286)
You used to be able to choose. Then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis happened.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by bsder on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:44PM (#8986391)
You need to point out that it was Enron causing the problem, not everybody has the context anymore of how badly they screwed California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron

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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by gadders on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:12AM (#8991129)
Not wholly. Poor government intervention caused the problem as well.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by bsder on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:05PM (#8992454)
Poor government intervention meaning "not doing a damn thing" then, yeah, you're right.
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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by gadders on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @12:41PM (#8998241)
No, it meant capping retail prices and letting wholesale ones float. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis#G...
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