• California's 'Open Access' Fiber Broadband Plan Is Making Telecom Giant

    From Moderator@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 26 13:25:21 2021
    from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept

    By Karl Bode

    Back in 2009, the FCC funded a Harvard study that concluded that
    open access broadband networks (letting multiple ISPs come in and
    compete over a central, core network) resulted in lower broadband
    prices and better service in numerous locations worldwide. Of course
    when the Obama FCC released its "National Broadband Plan" back in
    2010, this realization (not to mention an honest accounting of the
    sector's limited competition) was nowhere to be found. Both parties
    ignored the data and instead doubled down on our existing national
    telecom policy plan: letting AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast do pretty much
    whatever they'd like. Something, of course, taken to ridiculous new
    heights during the Trump era.

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210824/07565547420/californias-open-access-fiber-broadband-plan-is-making-telecom-giants-like-att-nervous.shtml

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