alt Hacker NewsWrong, 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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So why don't you have ISPs that focus on one state or one geographical area. We have that all over in Europe.
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.
Do you imagine an infrastructure project in ANY country is managed like a project in a small company?
> 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.
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.