On: Dear FCC: Thanks for Listening to Team Internet

[jackmaney]

"What incentive will telecom companies have to build the wireline networks that enable next-generation of web services if they can't make enough money to justify the investment?"

Regulation forcing them to build the networks or be heavily fined. Given their profit margins, I'm weeping...hold on...taking careful count...carry the seven...zero tears for them.

[danielweber → jackmaney]

Regulation forcing them to build the networks or be heavily fined

And there we go.

[hga → jackmaney]

Which will cost less: sending political money to the current party controlling the Administration, or those build outs?

Comparatively speaking, politicians individually are cheaper by, say, 3-5 orders of magnitude, as a whole, maybe 2.