[ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 03/07/2015 12:47 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com
> <mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     To me, the better solution is not allow the there to be local
>     monopolies. In many communities, the monopoly exists because local
>     governments granted an exclusive franshise to a cable provider. A
>     single, local provider in theory means better local control but CobbEMC
>     management had been defrauding the members for years. As someone who
>     lives in their service area I would love the chance to use someone else.
> 
> 
> 
> With services like this, you need to have local monopolies on some level,
> otherwise you'd have a different set of wires running everywhere for each
> service provider, and the streets would be constantly under construction as
> other providers were installing new lines, etc..., which has other negative
> impacts.  This is the reason that exclusive franchises are granted in the first
> place (often with large tax breaks).
> 

We have Naked DSL ... we need naked coax and naked fibre too.

Sorta like the atlanta gas setup.