Re: dark fibre
"a monopolist is creating a 'shortage' where none actually exists."
Telcos used to dictate what you wanted and when you got it.
That changed in the mid-late 1990s, but incumbent telcos are like supertankers - not exactly manouvreable. and traditionally cushioned by lots of govt protection plus the ability to leverage existing monopolies.
The current situation is as if Ford built roads and the only non-Ford cars allowed on Ford Roads were required to do so by sitting on top of (expensive) Ford Interface Units which Ford supplied and soley existed to isolate the non-Ford car's tyres from the Ford road, even though the tires were identical to the ones used by Ford, the non-Ford cars complied with all the same standards the Ford Cars did and the interface units were not required on non-Ford Roads, whether the cars on the non-Ford roads were Fords or non-Fords.
Oh and by the way, if you have a non-Ford car on the Ford road, you can't report a pothole or a problem with the (unreliable) Ford Interface Unit until you have exhaustively checked down a 120-point faultfinding list on your car and you go to the back of the problem queue unless you pay extra fees to be treated with the same priority as the Ford cars.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
