The market process turns these tensions between suppliers and consumers into a profit opportunity for extant and would-be competitors. The sad fact is that the market process is actively interfered with by the political…
>Instead of saying "anyone is allowed to dig up the road, bury cables and let the customers choose the provider with the best service" we often allow only one or two cable providers and add some special rules to make…
> ISPs either need a right of way to lay cable or a license to use RF spectrum. As I understand it, both of those can (and do) support multiple competing services. Further, regulation dealing with scarce (ostensibly…
Some would argue that those "privately held organizations" are able to avoid market pressures via regulatory capture, if not outright grants of monopoly by governments. If you want to argue that a government-granted…
> Classifying ISPs as the utility companies they are is the only way to end the gouging and systematic fraud. This would further entrench them as government-chartered monopolies. Heck, most of the current…
He didn't claim it was the only barrier to entry. To extend his point, "red tape" isn't the only regulation-related problem. Don't forget that in many local governments gave monopoly grants to select ISPs. Then there's…
>I'd love to see some sort of automatic regulation for situations of market failure. Why do you assume "market failure", and not "regulatory capture"? > the presumption should be regulation Can we first get rid of the…
The market process turns these tensions between suppliers and consumers into a profit opportunity for extant and would-be competitors. The sad fact is that the market process is actively interfered with by the political…
>Instead of saying "anyone is allowed to dig up the road, bury cables and let the customers choose the provider with the best service" we often allow only one or two cable providers and add some special rules to make…
> ISPs either need a right of way to lay cable or a license to use RF spectrum. As I understand it, both of those can (and do) support multiple competing services. Further, regulation dealing with scarce (ostensibly…
Some would argue that those "privately held organizations" are able to avoid market pressures via regulatory capture, if not outright grants of monopoly by governments. If you want to argue that a government-granted…
> Classifying ISPs as the utility companies they are is the only way to end the gouging and systematic fraud. This would further entrench them as government-chartered monopolies. Heck, most of the current…
He didn't claim it was the only barrier to entry. To extend his point, "red tape" isn't the only regulation-related problem. Don't forget that in many local governments gave monopoly grants to select ISPs. Then there's…
>I'd love to see some sort of automatic regulation for situations of market failure. Why do you assume "market failure", and not "regulatory capture"? > the presumption should be regulation Can we first get rid of the…