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Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by eropple on Monday February 02, 2015 @07:22PM (#8988089)
Your posts in this thread have had the woe-is-me scream of the right wing, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not being disingenuous when you're being wrong.

There aren't one or two ISPs because of regulation, there are one or two ISPs because the barries to entry are discouragingly high. It's fantastically, stupefyingly expensive to run that much cable. There's a reason we as a country have paid for so much of it.

Wireless broadband and satellite are inferior goods and don't replace hardline connections. Even so, you seem to have this curious idea that spectrum usage isn't rivalrous...which is not exactly borne out by reality.

Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by mullingitover on Monday February 02, 2015 @09:30PM (#8988543)
> There aren't one or two ISPs because of regulation, there are one or two ISPs because the barries to entry are discouragingly high

Infrastructure and Internet service used to be separate businesses at one point, the barrier was created when infrastructure owners were allowed to kick the other ISPs out. I had dozens of ISP choices when I signed up for DSL in 1998.

Re:F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as ... by orthecreedence on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:51PM (#8988910)
> the barrier was created when infrastructure owners were allowed to kick the other ISPs out

This stinks of deregulation to me.