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Bs. Heard about the 1996 telecommunicatins act? The government payed for their monopoly, and now it lets them keep it and not share it.


They have to share the last mile infrastructure with new entrants. And the FCC can preempt local and state level requirements to help new entrants.

The current problems are that a) since Trump the FCC is shit, b) local municipalities "vowing" to not enter the market (and others have no incentive).

See these for b: - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-ca... - https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...


> The current problems are that a) since Trump the FCC is $#\¥

Oh please, he’s been in office less than a year - none of this amazing ‘sharing’ happened under the previous administration either. It’s totally understandable to have (in my case many) disagreements with the Presidents and their policies, but this knee-jerk habit of blaming whoever is currently in office for everything because he’s not on our team is counterproductive.


The FCC under Trump has been very friendly to the large enterprises at the expense of small businesses and customers. Trump himself has approved many regulatory changes which are hostile to small businesses, employees and customers across many different industries.

It's safe to say at this point that we have a clear idea of what decisions Trump and his FCC will make in the future, and that there would little to no hope for decisions which will increase competition. A year is plenty of time for assessing the character of an adminstration, and Trump's has been remarkably consistent in this regard.


> blaming ... for everything

Not for everything.

I blamed O'dog for the fucking shady counterproductive NSA practices that he allowed to continue.

The Obama DoJ took a dump regularly on whistleblowers.

And the infamous CIA kill-by-drone program.

And those are just the obvious big ticket items.


Is that when they subsidized the ISPs with billions to build out infrastructure, which they never did?

The problem with anti-government rhetoric in the US is it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Government is not inherently as incompetent and weak as yours often is.

There is no reason why a regulatory solution cannot work in the US when they work well in many other countries of greatly varying size and population density.

If your government fails you, that is not a failure of government: it is a failure of your government.




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