| reply to 2farfromCO7
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What should the CLECs just disappear because their business model is bad? The only bad business model is the concept of the ILECs controlling both the infrastructure and the distribuition of telecom services.
The problem lying within this argument is that it relies on the assumption that the ILEC's were never in business selling the distribution of the telecom services until 1996.
The Telecom Act has many flaws- the largest of which requiring the RBOC's to offer wholesale any past, present and future services that it sells or sold retail. This makes things counterproductive, as it causes a large incentive to NOT be innovative- why spend money on R&D when you have to give the product to someone else without them spending a dime or an hour developing their business themselves??
I agree that RBOC's should charge for the service not the time- but I can't say that this isn't the case already. RBOC's already charge flat rate for deregulated T&M such as jack work anyways. Besides which, it is never to the RBOC's advantage to do a 2 trip job when it could have been done in one trip.
There really is no real answer until everything goes satellite- 1 2-way 18 inch dish for all telephone, tv, internet, etc. When you want to change companies- you point at a different "bird" in the sky. If you are low income, you point your dish at a government subsidized satellite. No wires, no copper or fiber infrastructure, no mess in "who's tech screwed up my order", etc. But this is just my dream.
michael74 |
