CountArtha said:
No, telecommunications companies like Bellsouth and AT&T do. It's their infrastructure too that is being regulated; not just ISP practices.
No they don't. AT & T do server hosting but to be frank they do server hosting like Frank Sinatra done Shakespeare. The internet is created by all computers which connect to it. The only important part is the master routing tables, which IIRC currently reside on around 12 hosts on the Academic network.
For all the theory about monopolists preying on smaller companies, it VERY seldom happens in practice.
Right. So department stores don't exist, Microsoft is a funny little company that releases mods of IBM's OS' and News Corp is the publisher of a small Australian Newspaper.
Each competitor a monopolist absorbs is more expensive than the last because it controls a greater share of the remainder
Market shares do not work like investment shares /facepalm. Each competitor costs exactly the same they would if you'd never bought any in the first place, their value is based on their assets, not their market share. Their market share doesn't increase when a competitor is bought, unless the buyout decreases the market share of the competitor.
Besides, there's nothing barring another telecom from entering the market if consumer demand is high enough.
And there's nothing barring Mr Murdoch buying that one too, what with him now having more money and the start up needing investment.
hard to pull off without a series of tubes
Not really, it's called wireless. You might have heard of it. It's the future you know.
ealabor said:
ISP being a transportation to the internet, how many people know how to build their own cars?
I'm gonna just leave that there as some kind of weird philosophical statement. All you need is access to the backbone. The hardest part of this process is usually choosing between a cabled or non-cabled medium. Then you need a DNS server, plenty of free ones out there to pick from, and you have internets. I mean the only reason ISP's exist in the first place is because in theory they save on line rental and running fees by virtue of the economics of scale, which means it's cheaper. In practice this might have been true around a decade ago when you needed an actual server for DNS, but these days I reckon you'd actually save money by doing it yourself (particularly if like the ISP you can rent the lines at wholesale prices).
Most of the webbers are preteen sluts watching Justin Beber on YouTube, soccer moms shopping for vibrators, or overweight male virgins with *****tits trying to get a WoW raid done.
Yeah, all I'm seeing here is a reason for greater regulation of the internet. They can ban Bieber for a start.
Just like everything else with government regulations, in the end the best regulator ends up being the private individual.
Assuming things like health and safety and child slavery aren't big issues for you.
