On 8/9/19 4:03 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
...apparently Amazon has become a public utility now?
I look forward with bemusement to the PUC tariff filings for AWS pricing. ^_^;;
Don't scoff too hard. How do you think that telephone service became a utility? Utilities didn't grow on trees, they became utilities when some bureaucrats convinced legislators to "promote" successful service providers to utility status. Especially when such providers are providing a service as a monopoly. Particularly a "natural" monopoly. AWS has competitors, but if the number of providers remains small (like fingers of one hand) the politicians wil step in. And it wouldn't be the PUC, as Amazon is a company national in scope. It would be something like the FCC. Public Utility Commissions are at the local (usually county) or state level.