The vote was was made, but implementation is months in the making. I truly think that whatever happened is not a result of the FCC vote.
I could not disagree with you more. The LESS government interference there is, the better for ANY business. I am 59 and I remember as a teen and early 20's the aviation industry was VERY highly regulated. The Govt determined to which city a carrier could fly, costs for tickets were high, because the govt regulated prices. When the airlines were deregulated there were cries of fear that the airlines could charge whatever they wanted, and the airlines would only fly to big cities, and on and on and on. Then the capital markets took over and a company called People Express Airline was formed in 1980 becoming the first major "Low Cost" carrier. The cut fares drastically, started flying to secondary airports, made flight costs affordable to the average traveler. They made up for the lower ticket prices with high service and filled planes. Thus more low cost airlines were formed and the major carriers were forced by mere market conditions to lower fares and serve airports that were more convenient to customers.
Many of those carriers that did not adjust are now non-existent; TWA, Eastern, National. The market of capitalism kicked in, as it always does in a vacuum, and creates solutions that are impossible to be created under the burden of bureaucratic regulation.
One example of over regulation today that would be fixed by deregulation in my own county (Lee County Florida) The State of Florida has government agency that has to approve any new hospital rooms in the state. If a hospital is overcrowded and wants to convert a sitting area into more rooms, it can not unless approved to add the beds (Then they have to get the building permit approvals, etc) Our county has 4 hospitals which are constantly overcrowded. Enough so, that earlier this year my father-in-law had to be kept on a stretcher in the halls of the Emergency Room for 72 hours until a room opened for him to be admitted (and they have 349 beds) This is a constant problem with our local hospitals.
The hospital company wanted to build a new hospital in an area of the county that was without a hospital, in order to relieve the over crowding. The regulators in the state capital said that there was not a need for new beds and rejected the proposal. This is a case where patient care is being throttled by regulators and could be blown wide open by the free market.
And by the way a huge part of the US Military is privatized and has been since the Revolutionary War.
The Creeping Privatization of America's Armed Forces - Newsweek
www.newsweek.com/creeping-privatization-americas-forces-616347
May 28, 2017 - We have used military contractors in every major conflict since the American Revolution. ... In other words, about half of our armed forces is outsourced to private military contractors.
