When you have been around for more than two decades, patterns start to repeat. Time-sharing becomes the cloud, distributed systems become edge computing, and concerns about monopolies come and go. A good friend is now working for Competify to see if a decade-old issue in front of the FCC about special access can finally bring new rules.
From Competify’s perspective the issue is thus: “The FCC adopted Net Neutrality rules to protect American consumers and businesses against the symptoms of the dominance these huge companies wield over our broadband infrastructure. Now, it’s time to address the underlying disease. America needs real broadband competition and rules to protect consumers and businesses until that competition exists. The FCC has collected the data, and it’s time to finish the job. It’s time to try Competify.”
Competition and broadband are a matter of perspective to me. As Verizon sells off more and more of its local services so that it can become a wireless operator and follow in Sprint’s footsteps, it feels like the target is ambiguous. According to Competify, 75 percent of country has only one choice for broadband access lines...Read More
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