{"id":457,"date":"2004-07-19T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T22:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/07\/19\/yet-another-private-platform\/"},"modified":"2004-07-19T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T22:13:25","slug":"yet-another-private-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/07\/19\/yet-another-private-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Private Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a124'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verizon just announced its <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Verizon's+fiber+race+is+on\/2100-1034_3-5275171.html\">Fiber service<\/a>. For $35\/month, Verizon will lay a fiber line to your home and give you 30Mbps internet connectivity. Then they&#8217;ll sell you cable TV, too. And maybe switch your phone service to VoIP?<\/p>\n<p>Sounds great, except for the somewhat-hidden gotcha: the FCC is not requiring that this new infrastructure be set up for competition, and that&#8217;s one reason why Verizon is pursuing it. So in a few years, we&#8217;ll have  separate coax cables from Comcast and RCN, and separate fiber cables from Verizon and all the other companies. That&#8217;s a bit like forcing each airline to set up its private airport. The only result: locking out competition, specifically smaller, more nimble, more innovative players.<\/p>\n<p>When will we learn that, with a tiny bit of smart regulation, we can get solid, shared platforms for innovation that benefit everyone instead of a mess of redundant, incompatible solutions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon just announced its Fiber service. For $35\/month, Verizon will lay a fiber line to your home and give you 30Mbps internet connectivity. Then they&#8217;ll sell you cable TV, too. And maybe switch your phone service to VoIP? Sounds great, except for the somewhat-hidden gotcha: the FCC is not requiring that this new infrastructure be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}