14-Feb-03 at 07:24, Clifton Royston (cliftonrlava.net) wrote :
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:06:45AM +0000, Simon White wrote:
> > 14-Feb-03 at 05:32, Tom Allison (tallisontacocat.net) wrote :
> >
> > > Unless you are willing to pay me the difference for a static-IP address
> > > then you might need to reconsider the determination of your stance. I am
> > > not the only one, there are a lot of people using dyndns.org (and others)
> > > for their domain name management.
> >
> > The market is pretty competitive in most places I've looked, and I've
> > routinely asked for quotes with one static IP and not come in for too
> > much problems over cable and ADSL providers in Europe.
> >
> > Maybe it's different in the US. Forget big providers if you can and get
> > a local one who are actually reselling bigger provider services.
>
> On cable that market basically doesn't exist. The FCC deliberately
> destroyed it before it could get established, by holding that the FCC
> could 1) pre-empt any local or state regulation of cable service,
> including Internet service over cable, and could also 2) intentionally
> not enforce the provisions of US law which require telecommunications
> services to be offered competitively. AOL's support of "Open Access"
> to cable mysteriously went away as soon as they came into ownership of
> Time-Warner cable, one of the biggest US cable providers.
>
> So there we are: US law requires that the cable companies offer local
> providers a chance to resell service, and the agency in charge of that
> law will prevent anyone from enforcing it.
>
> That leaves DSL. Now that the FCC has intentionally created total
> monopolies for cable Internet service, they're planning to apply the
> same principle to DSL to "level the field" for the phone companies, by
> eliminating the requirement that the phone companies must allow other
> companies to resell DSL. Surely only a cynic might think it's because
> giant monopolies make bigger political donations than many small ISPs
> would.

The craziest part of all that is that American development agencies in
places like Morocco are all pleading for incumbent telcos to open the
playing field for telecoms, especially Internet services. What a mess.

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