There was a recent piece on a PBS program called “Need to Know”, very much worth a watch.

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It shows the kind of competition spurred by Open Access rules on infrastructure. Sadly, the FCC is such a basket case, we are unlikely to ever get these kind of sensible rules if we have to rely on them. A recent article by Benoît Felten explains why. Localities are more apt to understand the urgency and aren’t as insulated from the failures of the existing model.