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Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:07:18 -0300
What are people worried about here exactly?The same lack of competition in telecommunications that we had in the 1980s? Granted, it won't ever be quite *that* bad again, but we're slowly moving back towards one monolithic ILEC, and that does worry me.
To worry most is the fact that a single company has all services on a given area: fixed, wireless, long-distance. I don't think that having a single fixed-only company throughout the country would be such a big issue... but having the customer first mile (which some people call last mile, although saying customer comes first) and be allowed to offer LD and wireless is something to be afraid. Be very afraid. Rubens
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- Welcome back, Ma Bell Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Eric A. Hall (Mar 05)
- RE: Welcome back, Ma Bell Edward W. Ray (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Steve Sobol (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Eric A. Hall (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Christian Kuhtz (Mar 06)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Justin M. Streiner (Mar 06)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Stephen Sprunk (Mar 06)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Eric A. Hall (Mar 05)
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- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Fergie (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Brian Wallingford (Mar 05)
- RE: Welcome back, Ma Bell Edward W. Ray (Mar 05)
- RE: Welcome back, Ma Bell Fergie (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Fergie (Mar 05)
- Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell Patrick W. Gilmore (Mar 05)