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Deja Vu [Was: Re: So why don't US citizens get this?]


From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:58:37 GMT

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- -- Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:

The telcos might disagree...  it's a free market...  they're free to
market whatever they want.

And they do. Rightfully so, I suppose.

I think the issue that was being discussed -- which I shouldn't
probably compel -- is the fact that questionable decisions have
been in the U.S. regulatory process which favor monopoly interests.

Free markets have a tendency to become "un-free" when monopolistic
positioning becomes entrenched -- and even preferred by government
bureaucrats.

But allow to me apologize now for my non-technical response,
although I feel compelled myself to point out the obvious. We just
don't have the competitive choices we should, as consumers.

What is old, seems to be new again, unfortunately.

$.02,

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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