Quoted from Black_Knight:This is one reason why Washington should stay out of regulating the internet and creating rules over it.
By 'helping' they have screwed up several several industries in the last 20 years including mortgages, healthcare and college education.
Regulation makes things more expensive, stifles innovation and creates barriers to entry. These is so anti-Silicon valley/ High Tech, I can't believe people want the politicians to get involved. (i know, someone wants to make or save money on it)
The telecoms invested in the infrastructure and should be able to make money on it.
There are no more monopolies in telecom (except in very remote areas) so stop regulating it. People have more options than ever so let them figure out what they like best.
Restrictions/ preferences/ throttling can all be overcome by paying the provider more or changing providers. So for all intents and purposes this is regulating the price of services which is wrong.
So i'm not sure which words describe the side I'm on since the law/act/regulation Titles usually mean the opposite; but I am on the NO Regulations side.
Are we living on the same timeline? I see history repeating itself, at least from my distorted perspective. All of these horizontal mergers and buy outs aren't to lower your costs and give you more options.
Here's a fun fact, in 1994 my home state of Pennsylvania granted Verizon 2.1 billion dollars to roll out fiber to every household by 2015. 1994! They met none of their deadlines and the deal stood despite not living up to a fraction of the contract. I live in a densely populated area and I'm fairly certain I still can't subscribe to FiOS, which wasn't even a blip on anyones radar for another 10 years. Not that I'd want to, I'd have Google Fiber by now at a fraction of the cost with orders of magnitude better speed.
I'd be hard pressed to believe other local or state governments didn't pay telcos to build out infrastructure. Much like rich sport team owners that threaten to leave a city if they don't fund a new stadium, these tactics basically boil down to extortion. But the most ironic part of your infrastructure statement is that Verizon was actively trying to subvert their own copper lines to force customers onto their wireless networks by not fixing existing infrastructure!
(Sources: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/30544 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/verizon-workers-can-now-be-fired-if-they-fix-copper-phone-lines/)
