[mewse-hn]

The article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reaches a central office, access can be sold and metered off to a free market, just like capitalism.

What most of us in the "free world" are suffering with is blood sucking parasites that own the pipe into the house and charge prices aligned with that fact. It's anti-capitalism in the guise of capitalism.

[slopinthebag]

Why would fiber to the house be a natural monopoly?

[andriamanitra]

Because the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers to the same house would be tremendously wasteful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

[slopinthebag]

But you wouldn’t get 20 different fibres, just one sold to 19 different companies.

[Hikikomori]

Why would roads to your house be a natural monopoly?

[inemesitaffia]

Overbuilding makes no financial sense for companies