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The Potential of an Accessible and Affordable Pipeline

Ultimately, unless the United States government makes a massive overhaul of the current telecommunications regulation infrastructure, the existing duopolies will continue to crush any sense of actual competition within the United States. We will continue to fall even further behind to Europe and Asia with respect to speed, cost, and penetration. The effect that a regulation overhaul would have is enormous. Currently in the United States, over 10 million homes remain unserved, another 50 million are able to subscribe but choose not to because of cost concerns or speed concerns, and the 50 million that are subscribed are stuck with only duopoly choices. With proper regulation, affordable internet connections could reach millions of children, resulting in millions of brains, previously on the other side of the digital divide, to be reached and finally be given one of the greatest learning tools on the planet. Anarchistic distribution channels would become far more efficient and numerous. Broadband penetration would become so high that ideas like high speed wireless networks built solely from personal Wi-Fi connections could become a reality and rid us of the need for giant telecommunication companies to provide our cell phone service.
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>		Once we make the internet affordable (and hopefully eventually free) for every person in the United States, the walls of capitalism will begin to crumble and the changes we have discussed in class will come like a freight train. It all starts with making the pipeline free and accessible.
 

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