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Re: Lower prices said by T1 Rocky:HELL NO! The short term is that we save money while AT&T/Verizon etc pummel the cable companies for the next 2 years. Then when they have wiped out that industry, where's the competition? Then what happens to prices? Stick with the cable companies! Pay now or pay alot more later. The ILECS have wiped out ALL competition in ISP, SDSL and ADSL markets. All that is left are the cable companies, satelite and hundereds of very smail wireless internet providers. So what are you saying, we should all stick with cable so that the telcos disappear and in the process forming a monopoly of their own? That is basically what you are suggesting should happen.
This is what competition is. Multiple companies vying for the consumer's dollar. Verizon is funneling tons of money into FIOS which is really no different than cable, i.e. their own private pipe. I could say the same of Comcast, "Why is my internet bill now $200 per month instead of the $45 I was paying before" can I not?
Its capitalism. The problem comes in when everything starts getting regulaated to death by those who are on the take and don't know anything about what is going on, translation - politicians. |
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| I would also point out that the telcos are still pretty heavily regulated, while every other inter-modal competitor is unregulated, including cable. So don't go cryin' about the demise of cable. If that happens, the cable co's have no-one but themselves to blame. |
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Sometimes unfair competition can hurt other business. Just like the Telcos are doing. It's hard on Cavalier telephone to fairly compete when the Telcos keep undercutting prices, while controlling most of the nations pipelines and phone switching stations.
The Telcos own a lot of the broadband pipe for the internet and have the most hubs (switching stations) where the public telephone lines are connected from other providers wanting to run phone service. The Telcos charge fees for the use of these hubs and charge ISP's for the use of there broadband pipes. So they have a unfair advantage here. They don't have to pay any of these fees.
It's just like Walmart when they come to town. They price there stores so low, with cheap goods they contract someone in China to make for them via cheap labor. The small retail store doesn't have that buying power like Wally-world has. So the mom & pop store can't survive and a whole community watches the local businesses fold up like domino's.
I love reading about townships that won't allow Walmart to set up shop. These folks in these little towns are preserving and protecting the true real American economy. And that's the small business man, people.
Just another red-lined Americans two cents, that's all.
My Quote for the day: "From the poor white trailer parks trash, to the welfare infested Ghetto's......Let FIOS freedom ring!" -----> "NOT!"
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| You do realize that is against the law what you "think" the telcos are doing right ? There is a reason why verizon verizon on line and verizon wireless are separate companies.
Verizon broadband is a sub company of verizon themselves. Verizon owns the pipes. Verizon on line leases them from verizon and every other provider can lease them from verizon to.
Verizon's complaint was they were being forced to sell the lines to competitors for cheaper then it was charging its own sub company.
Kind of weird eh ?
And on the Walmart part blame yourself and all your friends who want more money in their pocket for other things like the huge escalades. People are so short sighted to blame the company when in all reality it is us the people who are greedy and wanting more for less.
Walmart and others feed a need , a need for cheap goods. If the need was gone so would Walmart be. But greed stops that from happening. Don't be so holy. You cant blame people in a GLOBAL market for driving a local business under.
Don't like it you and all your friends start buying from local shops. Can you do it ? Can they do it ? I know I tried and it made a huge difference at the end of a month.
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