Re: U.S. Finance Sector Weighs In on Net Neutrality

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

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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