Wrong, there are scaling problems. Have you ever worked at both a very large and very small company? Were things that were easy at small companies much harder at large ones?

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taveras 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a false equivalence to compare working in a company to have the same scaling problems as implementing policies to set up broadband infrastructure.

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matt-p 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So why don't you have ISPs that focus on one state or one geographical area. We have that all over in Europe.

	▲	AnthonyMouse an hour ago \| parent [-]
		To some extent there are, but in many cases it's because the law prohibits that. It imposes build out requirements so that if you want to offer service in the higher density area you also have to provide service over a wide area that includes a bunch of farmland or similar. In theory this is supposed to be to make sure someone is serving rural areas but in practice it's because the incumbents don't want new challengers showing up to provide better service in the areas where it's profitable to build a competing network and so lobby the government to saddle them with a huge barrier to entry.

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dinga 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indeed. But also some things that were harder at the small company were easier at the large one. You have processes in place, were things in the small company are all done ‘by hand’.

So I think it is hard to compare small and big. For one company things are easy that are hard for the other and vice-versa.

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Turskarama 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you imagine an infrastructure project in ANY country is managed like a project in a small company?

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ErroneousBosh an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Were things that were easy at small companies much harder at large ones?

I don't know about anyone else, but I have *never* found this to be the case.

Dealing with a larger company you've got a far greater selection of people you can get to say "uh, yeah, I guess, why not? It's not really my department..." which you can take as a yes.

In a smaller company no matter what you're doing you've got to get it past Old Bob, who's been there since before most of the current management team were born and will argue over everything simply because he can.