Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Was looking for the thread about net neutrality to post this.

Anybody here read this book yet? About the subsidized telecom cartel here in the States.

Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Bonus: 2009 estimated figures for broadband access.


Where?
Monthly
cost
Uplink
(Mbps)
Downlink
(Mbps)


Stockholm
$11
100
100


Seoul
$24
100
100


Hong Kong
$35
100
100


Tokyo
$61
100
100


Amsterdam
$127
100
100


Lafayette, LA, Municipal
$58
50
50


Lafayette, LA, Cox Cable
$140
5
50



US, where available, Verizon
$145
20
50



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