On: AT&T sues Louisville to stop Google Fiber from usi...

[guelo]

Because you can't have multiple poles on the same land. One pole owned by the government that all businesses can use.

[adventured → guelo]

That can work but you have to do a much better job of outlawing all forms of government-protected monopolization and its half-way equivalents. Otherwise what you end up with, are local governments that want to cut deals for extra cash with AT&T et al. Local governments are supposed to not be allowed to cut monopoly deals today, but they still conspire with big telco to rig the game any way they can.

[rayiner → adventured]

For example?

[diskcat → guelo]

You can though. The second poles group might need to be taller and more expensive, but there is no reason to be a monopoly.

[snsr → diskcat]

Multiple, taller telephone poles. Yet another stellar solution from the "free market".

[CalRobert → snsr]

Not entirely unlike the GSM/CDMA redundancy.