re: I wholeheartedly disagree with the Trump administration on getting rid of Net Neutrality

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Monopoly has a very specific definition. Use it, not what you think it should mean.

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I'll use the term in the way that it applies to the topic at hand, thanks.

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What is the definition of leading market position?

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Are you serious? It means more than 50%, though some courts have required higher percentages. It absolutely does not mean 100%, if that's what you're suggesting. From the FTC:

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That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power. Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area.

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It even says they "typically" do not find monopoly power if the market share is less than 50%, which means a company CAN be deemed a monopoly with less than 50%.

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But I thought wired ISPs had a better product compared to wireless?

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They do, but again you've forgotten that they aren't even competitors. The monopoly power is abused when an ISP limits competition or access to competitors to its own services, among other ways.

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How do wired ISPs have the power to exclude wireless competitors?

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Again, the topic is not about wired ISPs excluding wireless competitors, that is a topic you've started in your own head and spewed into this thread.

My argument is that wireless ISPs do not compete with wired ones (the FCC agrees by its definition of broadband that you love so much), and that ISP monopolies exist all over the country despite your assertions that they have competition from mobile/satellite. Further, I argue that these monopolies are natural, and that they aren't necessarily bad. What's bad is when an ISP abuses its monopoly position in order to shape markets unfairly.

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and i cant recall a single time you have agreed with a liberal poster on anything

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I'm pro life

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Conservative viewpoint, just saying...

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Conservative viewpoint, just saying...

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That should have been pro choice.

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Alter on little alter.

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They own the content going over their lines. They don't have to pay the data transport fees Netflix does.

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That does not at all address the problem, but we'll just leave it at that. I don't have the energy to find out what sort of mental gymnastics you will surely pull here.

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Pay for more data.

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In other words: mobile ISPs simply do not compete with landline.

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Are mobile providers able to reach download speeds of 25MB/s? Yes or no?

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I already answered this question in the absolute most accurate way possible: Yes 1% of the time, No 99% of the time.

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The FCC definition says nothing about data caps or rate limits.

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But it does exclude mobile ISPs from this definition, and you conveniently ignore that fact in order to try to make a ridiculous point. Again I will say, there were attempts to include mobile ISPs in the definition, and data caps were the main topic of discussion for the obvious fact that bitrates alone are not sufficient when attempting to define a term such as "broadband". It is a meaningless label if it only applies 1% of the time.

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Buy more data.

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In other words: mobile ISPs simply do not compete with landline.

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Pay for more data.

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In other words: mobile ISPs simply do not compete with landline.

In order to even approach the level of service that a landline ISP provides, you would have to buy approximately $15,000 dollars worth of additional data per month (using Verizon's $15/gig overage charges). That is simply not even trying to compete.

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Fun fact: TMobile's data cap for unlimited is 50Gigs as of October.

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Fun fact: that "high" cap only applies to mobile use, and they throttle video to SD quality. They don't give nearly that much data for hotspot use.

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It's almost like they have competition and are responding...

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They compete in the mobile market, yes. What's that got to do with our topic?

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Almost like a monopoly doesn't exit for ISPs...

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Guess who said this (in Feb 2015):

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The FCC has said it wants to protect an open Internet, but its actions extend well beyond Net neutrality. Instead, it is ushering in a backward-looking regulatory regime that is unsuited to the dynamic and innovative Internet. Thursday's vote will allow the FCC to regulate rates, set terms and conditions of business relationships, and dramatically increase the cost of network deployment. It also gives state and federal governments new opportunities to impose taxes and fees on consumer bills.

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Answer: former FCC chairman.
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That's because it isn't necessary as wireless is nowhere close to being a competitor.

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5G will be the predominant delivery for internet service of most major ISP's in the next 5 years. It's already a proven technology that is being trailed in several cities across the US. There's no turning back, wireless service is the endgame.