"An absolutely atrocious article. Sorry Karl, but you miss the boat all over the place here."
You say I miss the boat "all over the place" (atrociously, even) then proceed to really only make one point that isn't really much of a correction to anything in the actual piece: That the Canadian TV market is more vertically integrated and labors under different foreign ownership requirements than the US market.
(As an aside, neither market is really "free," especially broadband).
I certainly could have fleshed out the differences more, but there's also enough similarities over the border that a comparison is still apt, from vertical integration issues (from Comcast/NBC, to Time Warner Cable and Comcast's ownership of regional sports networks) to the relentless demonization of more flexible channel package options and pricing by an industry terrified of evolution.
Regardless, I do apologize for my atrocious story.
The problem is we're very large, and nobody gives two shits about the areas where money is harder to make because doing so would require foresight, empathy, and strategic thinking.
I can't tell you how many "3 Mbps" DSL customers I see clocking in at less than 500 kbps. Usually for $50 (or more, if they're forced to bundle a landline they don't want).
Verizon's so finished with fixed-line broadband at this point I doubt they care. Their solution for every area that hasn't been upgraded is expensive, capped LTE service.
But there again we have far more control over website privacy than ISP privacy. You can use something like Ghostery to dodge some services. Much harder to block your ISP from deep packet inspection.
This from the same company that just informed millions of customers dramatic new broadband caps and price increases weren't actually caps, but were instead the company's divine manifestation of its limitless quest for "fairness."
Re: The mists are clearing, the image is coming through...
The good news is that this is getting harder to do. They were only able to do this in the first place because the press was totally apathetic to these kinds of stories for ten years. That's changed. I see municipal broadband talked about all the time now, thanks in large part to the attention Google Fiber drives...
Right. Except there's NO INDICATION that's true whatsoever.
"These kinds of investments are planned years in advance, and were already well on the way to being implemented by the time Title II came along."
Years in advance, like during the period the government was planning net neutrality rules? Rules that should have scared away ISPs from heavy investment?
They estimate about 427,000 homes, and 96,000 business locations passed with fiber, and between 100,000 and 120,000 served.
Figure there's roughly a dozen builds underway in large cities like Atlanta and San Antonio, and the math starts to speak for itself. This is no longer a tiny little experiment.
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You say I miss the boat "all over the place" (atrociously, even) then proceed to really only make one point that isn't really much of a correction to anything in the actual piece: That the Canadian TV market is more vertically integrated and labors under different foreign ownership requirements than the US market.
(As an aside, neither market is really "free," especially broadband).
I certainly could have fleshed out the differences more, but there's also enough similarities over the border that a comparison is still apt, from vertical integration issues (from Comcast/NBC, to Time Warner Cable and Comcast's ownership of regional sports networks) to the relentless demonization of more flexible channel package options and pricing by an industry terrified of evolution.
Regardless, I do apologize for my atrocious story.
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"These kinds of investments are planned years in advance, and were already well on the way to being implemented by the time Title II came along."
Years in advance, like during the period the government was planning net neutrality rules? Rules that should have scared away ISPs from heavy investment?
It's a bunch of bullshit. Full stop.
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Re: Define "currently building" in number of houses connected per day.
The number is plucked directly from a Sanford Bernstein research note based on extensive surveys.
http://www.multichannel.com/news/distribution/study-market-too-dismissive-google-fiber-s-pot ential/394356
They estimate about 427,000 homes, and 96,000 business locations passed with fiber, and between 100,000 and 120,000 served.
Figure there's roughly a dozen builds underway in large cities like Atlanta and San Antonio, and the math starts to speak for itself. This is no longer a tiny little experiment.
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