BillRoland
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join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
clubs:
 ·Cox HSI
| Real world
Threads like this always remind me that a lot of our readership here do not live in the real world. I can name a dozen different things that I buy that have all sustained rate hikes over the past year because of "high energy prices" and because the supplier they buy from is charging more. Its called "passing the cost along." Happens everyday, in the real world. Every time the cable company does that, though, its "that darn monopoly just railroading the poor little guy."
As for Lafayette's little fiber project, I honestly just don't see any role for government providing broadband. I just don't see providing broadband to a community that already has at least 2 choices, as being a role of a responsible government. But here's the question I really want to know the answer to: Do customers in Lafayette have a "choice" for who they get electric, gas, and water service from? I would suspect that only LUS provides those services. Not having a choice is the definition of a monopoly. One wonders how LUS would react if Cox and Bellsouth both announced their intentions to string up power lines, bury gas and water lines all over Lafayette in order to compete with LUS in the utilities business. I suspect LUS would cry "that's not fair."
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bamabrad
join:2006-01-27
Port Orange, FL
| Electric,gas,water are utilities and government regulated- I'm coming to the conclusion that data delivery might be considered one also because who ever controls data delivery controls information,which is converted to knowledge, and knowledge is power- and power ( or delivery thereof) of this sort should not be in the hands of a select few-it should be open and readily available to ALL at a REASONABLE cost. |
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