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How The FCC Has Failed To Take On The Real Broadband Issue: Competition... And Whyby Mike Masnick, TechdirtOct. 07, 2010 |
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 Way back in 2005, we pointed out that all of these fights and discussions about "network neutrality" were missing the point. They were fighting a symptom, not a disease. The real problem in the US is the lack of competition in the marketplace for broadband. Despite the twists and turns industry lobbyists will claim, true competition just isn't there, and the FCC has done nothing to address that (even though, its own "reclassification" plans earlier this decade in large part created the problem). The current flare up about net neutrality has again been a silly fight that we've barely even covered, because none of it addresses that lack of competition. Read More 
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