From: telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org   
      
   from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept   
      
   By Karl Bode   
      
   Back in 2009, the FCC funded a Harvard study that concluded that   
   open access broadband networks (letting multiple ISPs come in and   
   compete over a central, core network) resulted in lower broadband   
   prices and better service in numerous locations worldwide. Of course   
   when the Obama FCC released its "National Broadband Plan" back in   
   2010, this realization (not to mention an honest accounting of the   
   sector's limited competition) was nowhere to be found. Both parties   
   ignored the data and instead doubled down on our existing national   
   telecom policy plan: letting AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast do pretty much   
   whatever they'd like. Something, of course, taken to ridiculous new   
   heights during the Trump era.   
      
   https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210824/07565547420/californi   
   s-open-access-fiber-broadband-plan-is-making-telecom-giants-like   
   att-nervous.shtml   
      
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