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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.

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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.

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