it's very difficult to tackle the issue of increased access to lower cost<br>broadband if it means taking on the telco/cable internet lobby<br><br>over many years of talking about this issue, i have yet to see much,<br>
if any movement<br><br>the question it seems to me we're faced with is... are we any closer to getting<br>a 2nd, 3rd or 4th+ broadband provider(s) in the u.s. and where might they<br>emerge from?<br><br>is there a viable alternative that we could get behind?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Narelle Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:President@isoc-au.org.au" target="_blank">President@isoc-au.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Veni Markovski <<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a>> said:<br>
> It's always good to see more competition and a freer market in Eastern<br>
> Europe than in Washington, DC!<br>
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</div>I suspect there are more in China...<br>
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However, the opportunity in NY to create a new one, or to campaign to<br>
change competition law, is probably substantially different.<br>
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Isn't that the difference?<br>
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