KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southwest
| Corporation: One Goal: Money
1) Charge people to connect.
2) Charge providers for connection.
3) Charge providers for the bandwidth they use. (and often the users too)
Now they want to charge providers extra for their expenses of providing the services 1, 2, and 3 that people already pay for! They are like leeches, they want everyone else to pay for everything, but they rake in the profits.
I just don't understand the logic of these thinking.
"You owe us money for us to bill you for service! If you don't pay us to upgrade our infrastructure, we'll cripple you!"
This type of situation only occurs when too much of the infrastructure and the connections are in the hands of a few, far too powerful companies with limited or no competition.
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) |
