[Thread drift] The ISP cartel getting competition
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 6:05 pm
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg_ wrote:
|There may, however, be good news in sight.
|The end of the era of sucky, anti-competitive ISPs may be drawing to a close:
|http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/10/1712200threshold=5#31087828
It's not like it's going to be a real stretch for Google:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/13/2221207&threshold=4#31131718
It should come as no surprize that
municipalities, universities, and other large operations
are eager to be first in line to sign up with Google on this
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/13/2221207&threshold=4
--with local governments likely to compete for the opportunity.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/13/2221207&threshold=4#31131566
..and countries that *aren't* rapidly headed for 3rd-world status
have been looking at U.S. for years and shaking their heads at our "free market"
which has gotten us into this pathetic state:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/13/2221207&threshold=4#31132232
...and USAians have ALREADY paid for a **real** broadband infrastructure
--they just got screwed. I've posted this link before:
cache
of http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html
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