{"id":16508,"date":"2014-06-09T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-most-of-the-country-including-major-cities\/"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:39:37","slug":"in-most-of-the-country-including-major-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-most-of-the-country-including-major-cities\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In most of the country \u2014 including major cities like Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Houston, and Denver \u2014 there is only one major cable provider, which happens to be Comcast. In many of these markets, much smaller providers do, in fact, exist around the edges of the dominant company. \u201cStandard Oil did the same thing,\u201d Crawford said during a lecture last fall at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she recently joined the board of directors. \u201cYou let a little bit of competition exist so you can point to it and say \u2018Ha, we\u2019re competing!\u2019 But otherwise it\u2019s mostly controlled by one company.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/01\/09\/is-broadband-internet-access-a-public-utility\/\">Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility? | TIME.com<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mikerugnetta.tumblr.com\/\">mikerugnetta<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see the names of the competitors in the Denver area, so that I can assess my choices. At present, it seems as though I have none.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most of the country \u2014 including major cities like Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Houston, and Denver \u2014 there is only one major cable provider, which happens to be Comcast. In many of these markets, much smaller providers do, in fact, exist around the edges of the dominant company. \u201cStandard Oil did the same thing,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4ig","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}