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Why Verizon's Future FiOS Plans Suck For Consumers

By james_fudge

In a new academic paper, Law professor Susan Crawford explains consumers should be concerned about Verizon's decision to suspend FiOS rollout across the country and how it could result in a high-speed internet access monopoly. The article is a paper in the Yale Law and Policy Review.

In her writings, Crawford points out that Verizon is more than happy to suspend its rollout of FiOS in the U.S. because the company can simply blame new net neutrality regulations, cut back on what it would have spent for infrastructure building and present it all to investors in a positive light. As some commenters on Ars Technica point out, Verizon will probably finish building infrastructure in areas where it has already begun work -- like Washington D.C. -- but rural areas that have been promised FiOS in the "not too distant future" might as well forget about it. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).