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To: Teacher317

In most cases, there is no ‘monopoly’. The term is used falsely anyways.

Just to be clear, there are places out there where there’s only one broadband provider, be it comcast, or verizon or whoever.

But in most of your major/semi major cities, you’ve got at least two choices. That is, the cable company competes with the telco to offer broadband. But realistically it’s more like four at a minimum. Again, major/semi major cities, most have at least two cellphone carriers for which you can get a wireless broadband connection. That makes two wireless carriers, a telco, and a cable company. Four.

But for progressives, they have bastardized the word ‘monopoly’ in this instance. You could take a city as large as........ New York, Chicago, or LA.(I dunno the exact numbers in those areas but that’s not pertinent) Let’s say there’s 3 or 5 separate broadband companies that you can get in a city that large.(Not including wireless options)

If the government isn’t involved, progressives will say that private industry has a monopoly. That’s what they did during the obamacare debate, and they’ve done it elsewhere as well. It really isn’t all that different from their bastardization of the phraze ‘civil right’.


18 posted on 04/29/2011 4:43:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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To: BobL

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19 posted on 04/29/2011 5:14:50 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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