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Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:06:03 -0500
You're wrong on more levels than I care to address, but here's two: 1) There is no better system than the free market system. In the days when it was experienced, it was beautiful. YOU have not experienced it, regardless of where you live. THIS (what we have in the US) is not a free market. It IS, however, the most free market around... 2) Cable companies DO own the wires, where I live and probably where you live. They are not reselling a telco's bandwidth or connectivity or anything else - they're in direct competition with one another. They're also offering long distance services with their Internet and VoIP offerings. The local telco is now AT&T again (as it always should have been - if the market were free) and they're offering all of those services as well as pimping satellite television programming. THAT is deregulation - and it works splendidly. I've worked for both Sprint and AT&T - during the beginnings of deregulation - and as much of a nightmare that process has been, its worth it in the end. Oh yeah, why do you think DSL is underpriced? Where do you live?!! On 5/3/06, Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com> wrote:
Heh. There's several issues at play with telcos here in "Los Estados Unidos" ("Mi Casa es su casa" says fearless leader) ... they are what is called "regulated monopolies" and as such are entitled to a regulated "guaranteed rate of return" and therefore not subject to the usual marketplace forces. Deregulation has been a miserable failure as well as most other aspects of "free marketplace" have proven over the last 25 years ... wonder why petrol costs what it does? Speculators on the U.S. Commodities exchange who, when they get a whiff of "instability" bid up the prices on "crude" ... nevermind that the shortages here are the result of a lack of refining capacity and NOT a shortage of crude ... they stain their drawers every time Osama puts a videotape on Al Jazzy and bid the price up.
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- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Drsolly (May 03)
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- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Greg Poirier (May 03)
- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Dude VanWinkle (May 03)
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- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Dude VanWinkle (May 03)
- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Brian Loe (May 03)
- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Kevin McAleavey (May 03)
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- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Kevin McAleavey (May 03)
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- Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality Drsolly (May 03)
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