If the FCC had regulated the Internet

[tangor]

This is a hoot!

The Federal Communications Commission recently issued new rules regulating the Internet—even though it doesn't appear to have such powers. A federal court gangster-slapped the commission last year, accusing it of regulatory overreach for attempting to dictate Internet policy to service providers. These new regulations got me to thinking of where we would be today if the FCC had regulated the Internet from the get-go. …

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[LifeinAsia]

Love it!

[graeme_p]

As a balance, imagine what telecoms services would be like without regulation: extra charges for phoning someone who uses a different telco, charging both the caller and the recipient for calls across networks, blocking households from phoning companies that use a different telco unless the company pays an access fee for "use of our lines"