Issue 537 How can we have more internet? February 27, 2015

Did you know we can have more internet?  That it can be cheaper and faster?  Well, of course you did, but do you know how?  It is actually simple, so let's begin.

Simple solution for more internet:  So apparently the internet needs Ethernet pipes and similar infrastructure to run.  However, government licenses who can actually make these Ethernet pipes, and other technology that supports the internet’s spread and growth.  Basically, a set of regulations is preventing other companies, including startups from laying more of this infrastructure down which would in turn give us more access to a faster internet including in places where internet has yet to exist.  So the government is in effect creating mini-monopolies and preventing competition by preventing newer internet service providers from even coming into existence despite the technology to make these pipes being so cheap and easy to make.  Can you imagine if Netflix, or Disney made their own Ethernet pipes and similar infrastructure?  They would no longer have to pay another internet service provider to carry their content.  With more internet, the time where we just get the specific three to five channels on our televisions that we watch regularly and the rest on demand can come true.  We can pay less for television this way, and have freer radio, and literally every show we want on demand.  Essentially, we would just pay for access to the internet with everything else becoming 100% free with respect to phone, television and other subscription services that we normally would have to pay for given the current status quo.  All we have to do is de-regulate who can do what and then it is a victory to small businesses who want to grow and us who want cheaper faster internet.

Conclusion:  Remember, the internet needs the ability to send information around for it to work.  That information tends to travel the path of least resistance, which means more infrastructure for it equals faster internet and more access.  As such, let us allow more businesses to do this work so that not only they benefit, but we do to.