Surprise: giving ISPs everything they want hasn’t created a broadband paradise:
▻http://bgr.com/2014/02/21/comcast-time-warner-cable-merger-criticism
“The utterly consistent position from the ISPs has been this: Guarantee us a higher income stream from a more concentrated market, and we’ll build out new infrastructure to reach more Americans with high-speed Internet,” he writes. “A decade ago, this argument had at least the benefit of being untested. Now things are much simpler: We know that the ISPs’ argument has been wrong”
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