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Om Malik, founder of GigaOm, blames the FCC under Kevin Martin for failing to create a more competitive broadband environment in the United States. The ISPs’ behavior - traffic shaping, blocking applications - points to a market that is controlled by a few large service providers who feel they can get away with anything (and often do because the FCC does nothing against them).

Om says:

But this whole problem is the FCC’s making. The org, under Chairman Kevin Martin and others,…

So is this why the US government has been holding back competition in the US? So that Verizon and AT&T can provide fiber to a shockingly tiny percentage of the US population? Recall that many of the anti-municipal broadband bills that the telcos tried to get state governments to pass were based on the following argument: If we (the telcos) spend millions of dollars rolling out broadband to your communities, it would be unfair competition for you to spend taxpayer…