Quote:Ok what keeps me from building the lines at X amount of dollars, then my competitor who doesn't have to recover the overhead of building the network can come in and under cut my price by Y dollars how am I not going to lose money? What you're explaining is different than what Eleventh Door is explaining. I'm fine with regulation saying you can't change speed based upon content. However saying you have to give your competition network access at cost is a different story.

 

The cost of building the network is built into the lease price for the line.

 

In the relatively distant past of broadband it worked that way, third party providers could lease DSL loops from the phone company (telephone lines long in the ground) for a regulated price, which was in the mid 30's/line at the time (late 90's early aughts) but that was put to an end thanks to republican FCC rules that essentially removed the possibility of competition at all since most lines were run through remote terminals and the FCC ruled that the phone companies weren't required to lease those lines, only the central office ones.

 

There are a lot of ways to fix the problem, but they all start with a recognition of unfettered big corporate market control being the problem and end with a recognition of big governmental regulation being the solution.

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