<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Comcast being ISP and content creator is part of the problem. They will prioritize their content over someone else's ,and since they have a monopoly on delivery, it is de facto unfair<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Byron Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu" target="_blank">byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 07:41:27AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
> I lived in Houston before moving here - not in a baby-bell area. My phone was<br>
> $11/month. Moved to Smyrna - BellSouth - $26/month.<br>
><br>
> 'nuff said.<br>
><br>
<br>
Standard land line. How quaint!<br>
<br>
VOIP and Google Voice has deregulated this market already. I have a<br>
Callcentric DID with E911 service for $4.50 a month. Incoming calls routed<br>
in via GV. By virtualizing my home number, I never have to worry about that<br>
number being tied to a particular provider ever again. If I ever give up my<br>
AT&T cell service, I'll do exactly the same with my cell number.<br>
<br>
> Don't get me started about power issues where I lived in Houston.<br>
><br>
> Comcast needs to be broken up, but not in the same way that AT*T was. More like<br>
> how natural gas has been deregulated in Georgia.<br>
<br>
There isn't a direct correlation between the two. The primary difference is<br>
the fact that natural gas is exactly the same no matter who's marketing it.<br>
However with digital content, each provider offers different content that<br>
has to be delivered. Comcast has comcast only content that neither Charter,<br>
AT&T, or Dish offers. So instead of GNG, which can centralize all gas<br>
delivery operations for every marketer using the same infrastructure, in<br>
your proposed scenario each provider would have to have a connection to the<br>
head end of the delivery provider and the delivery provider would have to<br>
carry enough bandwidth to deliver every content providers content at the<br>
same time.<br>
<br>
Don't you think there will be a cost attached to that? One of the reasons I<br>
finally turned off my natural gas service was the fact that GNG was<br>
charging me nearly $40/month simply for the priviledge of providing gas to<br>
my meter. No matter if it's 1 therm or 100, the base delivery and tax was a<br>
$40+ base. Can you imagine how much a centralized content delivery provider<br>
would charge simply for access?<br>
<br>
How exactly is the market closed? Right now I can get Comcast (which I<br>
would never do, long story), AT&T UVerse, Dish, and DirectTV. In fact in<br>
the last 5 years I've had service with each of the above and except for<br>
Dish I've kicked each and every one of them to the curb at one point in<br>
time or another. There's nothing to preclude Verizon or Google from<br>
entering the fray.<br>
<br>
Comparing digital content delivery to natural gas deregulation is an apples<br>
to gorillas argument, seems to me.<br>
<br>
BAJ<br>
<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 03/07/2015 04:24 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:<br>
> > The Judge made my life harder. Before his ruling, I picked up the phone and<br>
> > called AT&T when the network wasn't working. It got fixed. Afterwards, I<br>
> > called AT&T and after a bit, they told me it wasn't their problem, so I called<br>
> > Racal Milgo and guess what? It wasn't their problem either. It took 2x 3x<br>
> > maybe 4x the amount of time to get the network back.<br>
> ><br>
> > Progress...<br>
> > On 03/07/2015 04:14 PM, James Taylor wrote:<br>
> >> Now you're making us all feel old....<br>
> >> -jt<br>
> ><br>
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