If you do nothing else today, read this article in the Harvard Law Review Journal: I got the link from the Cybertelecom-l mailing list.
Susan P. Crawford has written an article entitled "The Communications Crisis in America", in which she eloguently debunks the myth of competition in the transport of data to American consumers.
Here's just one memorable quote:
The industry is poised to reap the central reward for geographical clustering, upgrades, and de facto monopoly presence - unconstrained pricing ability and an unmatched high-speed communications service in a marketplace where consumers are agitating for higherspeed communications and the cable companies are making north of 90% margins on their data services.
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