From: Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> > Also, to your comment about starting a new ISP, have you > even thought that through. You still have to provide > last-mile service somehow. Do you think you can provide > cable based internet access? Do you think you can > provide your own DSL bypassing Qwest? NO, you cannot. > It's all government supported monopolies. You can't lay > new cable without government permits. Government will > not allow you to lay new cable to compete with these > people. It's not an option. > > We have 2 real hopes for these problems. > 1. Municipal owned/run Fiber to the home (Utopia,iProvo) > 2. Net Neutrality legislation to protect us in this > current state of limited competition.
You left off a third real hope: 3. Repeal the stupid local, state and federal laws that make it so darn difficult to create real competition! Why, oh why, is the solution to government-supported monopolies and burdensome regulations almost always "let's do more of the same!"? ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4bc4afef2d51d225717st03vuc /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
