axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Cox HSI
| theoretically government favors its own
Look at any country with a government-controlled telco monopoly (or telco monopoly-controlled government). They do all kinds of anti-consumer things to prop up their own poor service.
They should be a wholesaler of the network and have open access to other ISPs. You know, like DSL used to be. I don't know if that's efficient on a one city network, but they need to guard against government inefficiency.
That's interesting that they ran their network without a business plan. The only justification they need is boosting the local economy by giving local businesses a competitive advantage of great network access. They're already competing with private industry, though I guess $1000 T1 lines aren't really competition.
I'd suggest sticking to just internet for now if they go to consumers, TV and phone are pretty entrenched and aren't going to get the improvement from fiber that internet access does. |
