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Topic	Why were there so many dial-up ISPs, and so few broadband ISPs?
WastelandCowboy 08/19/18 11:21:57 PM #3:	Zangulus posted... Its about infrastructure. The major telecoms were about the only companies with the monies to set them up. DSL couldnt be used on existing hardware for a lot of places. I used to have a third party ISP, but the physical lines and hardware were still the phone companys. This. Broadband is ridiculous expensive to lay-out. Also, you have the political reach of major telecom in the pockets of most of the FCC and congressmen/women to make things easy for you and harder for others. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvn4x/the-21-laws-states-use-to-crush-broadband-competition And Trump/Ajit Pai is just making things easier for Big Telecom. <cite>WastelandCowboy posted [p:907192543] in Why were t... [t:76918807]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zangulus posted...</cite> <quote>Its about infrastructure. The major telecoms were about the only companies with the monies to set them up. DSL couldnt be used on existing hardware for a lot of places. I used to have a third party ISP, but the physical lines and hardware were still the phone companys.</quote> This. Broadband is ridiculous expensive to lay-out. Also, you have the political reach of major telecom in the pockets of most of the FCC and congressmen/women to make things easy for you and harder for others. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvn4x/the-21-laws-states-use-to-crush-broadband-competition And Trump/Ajit Pai is just making things easier for Big Telecom.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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