| Verizon and SBC playing, yeah, right! First, I must agree that the Baby Bells must be broken up once again. What was the purpose of break up in the 1980's if they are going to be allowed to create mergers and monopolize the infrastructure once again.
For Verizon and Mr. Seidenberg, stop your whining about municipal taxes, fees, and whatever else you complain about in life. If memory serves me correct, I do not recall you complaining about accepting millions of dollars in tax incentives for building a fiber infrastructure in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Since the projected dates and percentage of fiber be installed (unless you live in the $$$$ counties of the state of Pennslyvania), they are far behind schedule.
Since that money was from the hard working taxpayers of the state and was basically a free money handout to your company, I do not believe that you or Verizon has any right to complain about municipalities setting up broadband connections in any form. You are certainly dragging you feet even deploying basic dsl to many customers in the state of Pennsylvania.
Since I have only had to deal with SBC on one occasion, I honestly believe that they are extremely anticompetitive in certain areas of the country. After trying to get DSL for someone in the state of California, I was quick to learn that you could not have DSL of any sort unless you are a customer of SBC. If memory serves correct, other Baby Companies do this as well.
Before I hear the arguement of they built the network, they do not have to allow access to any company because they built the network. I find that erroneous. The networks were built many, many years ago. Hasn't all the money collected for their service paid for this network? Aren't they part of being a Public Utility? I must be losing it every time I read anything where either 2 CEO's cry because money would be taken away for their bonus's and stock options.
That is my opinion. I could be wrong. |
