Fake competition. Lack of innovation competition. Lack of diversity. As I said, there are plenty of ways to utilize independents to accomplish reasonable goals.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Beck" <[email protected]> To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 5:20:18 PM Subject: Re: Canada joins the 21st century ! Thousands of ISPs that collectively add up to a pimple on a horse's ass. In practice you have two dominant landline providers in each market, the ILEC and the cable company. A duopoly with a competitive fringe. Whereas other countries like South Korea and France have achieved much higher broadband penetration rates using other approaches. From: NANOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Hammett <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 10:58 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Canada joins the 21st century ! In the US there are thousands of independent ISPs. I assume Canada at least has hundreds of them. There are plenty of ways of utilize independents to improve access versus throwing cash into a fan. Not to mention the ridiculousness of a 50/10 requirement. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Sage" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2016 8:23:26 AM Subject: Re: Canada joins the 21st century ! On 12/23/2016 05:18 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > The government getting involved with the Internet rarely goes well. The FCC > is a shining example of how to usually do it wrong. > I agree. To hell with 'government'. What has it done for you lately, anyway? Canada should just have Comcast (or is it "Xfinity"?) provided nation-wide Internet service as a for-profit monopoly. Problem solved! - John --
