Originally posted by BoxingTech718
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Originally posted by JimRaynor
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But like i said previously. Even if google, Amazon, Facebook or whomever wants to become an ISP it's not as simple as setting up shop & building an infrastructure. They're shut out of most areas because of franchise agreements the current ISP's have with cities. And the old mom & pop cable companies are being bought out by the bigger companies. Charter/Spectrum just came thru and bought up a bunch of them. Less regulations won't create more comp because the ISP's currently have a monopoly.
When the bells were broken up the same was said. Other companies were allowed to lease existing infrastructure from the bells & sell you their service. (You can't do that in cable) But the cost to lease was so high (as well as neglect on infrastructure by the bells) the companies couldn't make money.
And now we're back at square one.
Even in cities with two cable companies I've seen apt complexes & HOA's sign agreements with one cable company leaving the other out
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