[mindslight]

So many of the articles are about business model optimization because it's not the primary nature of hackers - they need to be reminded. The major difference is that the businesses here are new and the market and product are uncertain (inherently complex); Internet access, by definition, is a solved commodity.

[TylerE]

Really, it is? How come in 2012, I, who live in decent sized US city (Metro area is about 140k), still pay about $40 for 10Mbit connectivity, barely better than I could get 10 years ago?

[mindslight]

Because utilities tend to plateau when they provide "enough" capacity? The house I'm in has the original water main and electrical service from 1900 and 1940. Being a commodity says nothing of the price (/trend), just the fungibility.