On Mar 20, 2014, at 08:39 , Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a >> "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for >> finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer, >> what the rest of us have known for decades. > > Every time the market has troubled the status quo, networks > have failed to find ways that adapt to that market. The > market ends up working around the network. > > Napster and all the goodness that followed it, is one such > example; until iTunes adapted. And yes, iTunes is NOT the > network. > > Now the OTT's are driving the network hard, and the network > des not want to adapt (perhaps calling in the FCC is > adapting... not). > > So expect the market to work around this as well. The > network keeps getting left behind... "The market" can only "work around" things if there is a functioning market. Monopolies are not a functioning market. There will be a solution - in fact, there is today. Doesn't mean it is optimal. In fact, in the presence of a monopoly, it is pretty much guaranteed to be sub-optimal. -- TTFN, patrick
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