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Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:45:53 +0200
On 23-aug-2005, at 23:24, Richard Z wrote:
US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration
I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own.
because no carrier is interested in investing and building an infrastructure to be shared by their competitors. The only way they argue to get the industry out is to have a few large companies with little competition.
So I guess the choice is between lots of broadband against monopoly prices or less broadband at lower prices?
Now I didn't take all that much economy in school, but something there doesn't sound right...
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- ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Richard Z (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Chris Boyd (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Gary E. Miller (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Senie (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Michael Painter (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger John Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Richard Z (Aug 23)