The Business 2.0 Blog has published an interesting story in which "The telcom companies, for their part, see no reason why they shouldn't be able to charge more for premium tiers of service. If most of their bandwidth is being taken up by people watching videos on Google or Yahoo, why shouldn't they be able to charge Google and Yahoo for being such bandwidth hogs?"
I made the following comment:
The above seems to be very close the case of retail deregulation of the electricity industry. In a sense it is a large restructuring undertaking. When systems operate close to capacity it is very important that the-end customer be willing to respond to prices. The next stage is for service retailers (water, gas, electricity, telecommunication) innovations to develop markets. Lobbyists don´t want that to happen, but that should be the end-state of the retail service economy of scope. Full retail deregulation should result in maximum value added service infrastructures. Are the technologies available to reach the end-state of public servicies without price controls?
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