> In industries with a high barrier to entry, the market naturally tends away from competition. Broadband is one such industry, due to the enormous initial infrastructure costs.
Maybe things are different where you live, but the bandwidth / price ratio has increased over 400% in the past 4 years for me where I live. Not a single website was blocked because the greedy corporation didn't want me to see it. Perhaps a few people were able to pay extra to video-conference, watch HDTV on demand, or do remote-surgery because my torrent downloads were throttled imperceptibly, but I think that's probably a good thing.
What is your point? From your post, I'm going to assume you live in the US. If so, you should know that your broadband access is the result of heavy government regulation.
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> In industries with a high barrier to entry, the market naturally tends away from competition. Broadband is one such industry, due to the enormous initial infrastructure costs.
Maybe things are different where you live, but the bandwidth / price ratio has increased over 400% in the past 4 years for me where I live. Not a single website was blocked because the greedy corporation didn't want me to see it. Perhaps a few people were able to pay extra to video-conference, watch HDTV on demand, or do remote-surgery because my torrent downloads were throttled imperceptibly, but I think that's probably a good thing.
What is your point? From your post, I'm going to assume you live in the US. If so, you should know that your broadband access is the result of heavy government regulation.