{"id":4007,"date":"2006-07-27T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/07\/27\/this-is-not-a-duopoly\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T18:42:58","slug":"this-is-not-a-duopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/this-is-not-a-duopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not a duopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAccording to our Vint Cerf, broadband access to the Internet is &#8220;at best a duopoly.&#8221; Reality, however, disagrees with Google&#8217;s chief evangelist.  See the latest FCC report on broadband competition summarized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precursorblog.com\/node\/121\">Scott Cleland:<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe other very powerful piece of evidence was in <a href=\"http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DOC-266596A1.pdf\">Table 15 \u201cPercentage of Zip Codes with High Speed Lines in Service<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* In 2005, the number of zip codes with 3 or more competitive broadband providers increased 21%, from 67% of all zip codes to 81% of all zip codes.<\/p>\n<p>* In 2005, the number of zip codes with 5 or more competitive broadband providers increased 35%, from 39% of all zip codes to 53% of all zip codes.<\/p>\n<p>* In 2005, the number of zip codes with 10 or more competitive broadband providers increased 62%, from 13% of all zip codes to 21% of all zip codes.<\/p>\n<p>* Moreover, the number of zip codes where there were no broadband providers at all fell from 4.6% of all zip codes at the end of 2004 to 1% of all zip codes at the end of 2005. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Market forces are producing more supply: in the number of competitors serving a market and in the numbers of markets served.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is Google&#8217;s worst nightmare, as it totally erodes any basis for the subsidy they seek in the form of net neutrality regulations. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our Vint Cerf, broadband access to the Internet is &#8220;at best a duopoly.&#8221; Reality, however, disagrees with Google&#8217;s chief evangelist. See the latest FCC report on broadband competition summarized by Scott Cleland:: The other very powerful piece of evidence was in Table 15 \u201cPercentage of Zip Codes with High Speed Lines in Service.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/this-is-not-a-duopoly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is not a duopoly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-12D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}