Comment Re:Not really, again see the phone companies (Score 1) 223
If you were correct in your analogy we would not have our current stagnation. At present, Compete.net decides to spend $10 million on lawyers and lobbyists to throw legal obstacles in front of potential adversaries to keep their effective regional monopoly and puts the other $55 million or $70 million it might have spent on network upgrades into profits, and lets their infrastructure continue to suck.
We still need a mixed public/private solution - regulation to keep the playing field open, and then competition on that open playing field. Pure private and pure public both lead to stagnation (even if the pure private solution stagnation is actually accomplished by having the private companies influencing public policy).
We still need a mixed public/private solution - regulation to keep the playing field open, and then competition on that open playing field. Pure private and pure public both lead to stagnation (even if the pure private solution stagnation is actually accomplished by having the private companies influencing public policy).