Comment on The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less

• blackbarn@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So make it a public utility perhaps considering it’s so critical these days

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  • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because the bigger problem is ownership of the infrastructure. Monopoly or not, one of the companies owns the line

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone doesn’t understand what eminent domain is. Sad.

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      • DoomBot5@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Even better, those cables were supposed to be replaced by the companies that own it using money from the government. Since they didn’t do that, might as well take the cables and money back and make it a public utility.

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• Something_Complex@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well there is precedent to that. When the us government allowed At&t to dominate the internet markt and then followed it by a huge court case against them until eventually the CEO of AT&T eventually agreed to the division of the company in smaller regional ares of operations.

  So they centralised it and then forced them to divide. If we are basically there already then just let them merge so you can prosecute them

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