We need to figure out a way to get fast internet to people without fiber lines and then we can blow up these companies imo
Nokia already has the tech to transmit broadband speeds over mobile towers. But then we'd just have ATT/mobile providers trying the same thing as Comcast.
Maybe Facebook & Google's ventures into hot air balloons and low orbit satellites can chip away at the provider monopoly, but that's years and billions of $ away.
Wont work out that way ACME. Right now its a matter of who has access to the physical lines in the ground. The govt only allows 1.
Without lines and with towers then all the different competitors can get into the competition at any time.
But it's pretty clear that Google is trying to become a provider and bypass the monopoly. Google, esp Youtube, sees this as a major threat to their future profits. Google Fiber is already up and running in KC.
So if Google can deploy balloons as their radio infrastructure across the entire US and offer broadband, then I don't see how the government can regulate that. Isn't that how the Dish network gets around the regulations and is in every major market?