[ale] Comcast Caps Data at 250G/Month

[James Sumners]

How can you call Comcast a monopoly? You might be able to make the
case that it is part of an oligopoly[1], but not a monopoly. There are
plenty of alternatives out there.

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:38 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> While having a monopoly internet service provider like
> Commiecast admit to their need for bandwidth limits
> may cause some frustration for consumers, the simple
> fact that they are finally being forced to take some
> responsibility for their false advertising claims is a
> tremendous leap forward. It was, of course,
> Commiecast themselves who created their bandwidth
> crisis by deceptively and aggressively oversubscribing
> their services. Yet it is very telling that this monopoly
> is now terrorizing their captured customers with
> threats of long term service interruptions for using
> the bandwidth that they were told they have available,
> as if it were the victimized consumers who were
> responsible for Commiecast's greed, corruption and
> incompetence.
*snip*


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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