On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Clearly this is a special situation where there is a natural monopoly given to whomever runs the wires. Maybe what we need is a certain class of company who will be responsible for running and maintaining the public data infrastructures. They could have lots of government regulations to ensure that they are charging a "fair" price while still being guaranteed a profit, and they could provide the last mile service for all those ISPs out there who are the ones that can actually compete and innovate. We could call them telcos, and... oh wait, nevermind.
I believe you've mispronounced: municipalities. Oh, wait: Congress wants to outlaw *that*, too. Cheers, -- jr 'Second American Revolution?' a -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me