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Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?)
From: Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 18:29:53 -0700
On 8/9/19 4:03 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
...apparently Amazon has become a public utility now? I look forward with bemusement to the PUC tariff filings for AWS pricing. ^_^;;
Don't scoff too hard. How do you think that telephone service became a utility? Utilities didn't grow on trees, they became utilities when some bureaucrats convinced legislators to "promote" successful service providers to utility status. Especially when such providers are providing a service as a monopoly. Particularly a "natural" monopoly. AWS has competitors, but if the number of providers remains small (like fingers of one hand) the politicians wil step in. And it wouldn't be the PUC, as Amazon is a company national in scope. It would be something like the FCC. Public Utility Commissions are at the local (usually county) or state level.
Current thread:
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?), (continued)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Henry Yen (Aug 12)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) James R Cutler (Aug 12)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Bruce H McIntosh (Aug 12)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Dan Hollis (Aug 15)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) John Curran (Aug 12)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) John Curran (Aug 04)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Rubens Kuhl (Aug 04)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Scott Christopher (Aug 05)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Matthew Petach (Aug 09)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Stephen Satchell (Aug 09)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Matthew Petach (Aug 13)
- Re: User Unknown (WAS: really amazon?) Stephen Satchell (Aug 13)