[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=32127613#p32127613:2hqqlbut said:
Mistrose[/url]":2hqqlbut]As to why Google isn't hitting its goals - how is it not illegal anticompetitive behaviour, when the existing "monopoly" ISPs drop their prices in ONLY the areas that Google is rolling out?
Well, that's exactly what you'd want (and assuming an actual free market, what you'd expect) when competition opens up in an area.
The real anticompetitive behavior is in the markets where there
isn't competition. Companies working very hard to make sure they will never have any competition so they can charge and act in any way they please, but unfortunately the government (municipal, state and federal) has been fully complicit with that state of things, so the FTC probably won't be bringing charges any time soon.
(edit: as for the implication that maybe with actual competition, the price of internet that the market will bear is not enough to pay for multiple build outs of independent network infrastructure, maybe that's just a great argument that internet access should be a basic utility)
