[Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Hsuan-Yeh Chang
> 
> Kyle Leslie wrote:
> > My friends father works for Verizon and according to him (The verizon
> > employee), many of the cities signed a contract with Comcast so they
> would
> > be the only provider of "Broadband" internet or something to that
affect.
> > Many of those contracts are going to be ending soon.  I Know Milton and
> > Quincy both fall under that umbrella.
> 
> If this is true, it sounds like a typical antitrust violation to me...

If by "typical" you mean "common," "normal," or "accepted," then yeah.  This
is pretty much the way all broadband is deployed nationwide, and it's done
on a per-town or per-city basis.