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bogey780

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reply to S_engineer

Re: No Wonder We're Not Tops

'What incentive does a cableco have to lower their prices when ATT is delivering the same product without paying a franchise tax....none!'

Do cable companies pay federal telecom taxes? What about VOIP? Kinda hard to complain when there's been nearly a decade of skirting regulations by the cable companies.


S_engineer
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join:2007-05-16
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Cable companies pay local municipal franchise taxes, ATT knew this going into the game so they changed the way the game was being played (via lobbiests). Voip, is a relatively new technology that at first, people thought its applications would be limited, and then were proved wrong. Don't worry about voip...the taxman cometh!

Now I hate cablecos like the next guy, but at least they attempt to move forward. ATT moves forward not through technological advancements, but through legislative briberys.
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bogey780

join:2004-03-19
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'Cable companies pay local municipal franchise taxes'

And AT&T pays federal taxes. The gov't has decided to let cable not be a "telephone service" while claiming that U-Verse is a cable service.

'ATT moves forward not through technological advancements, but through legislative briberys.'

So how many legislators did they bribe to create wireless ethernet, radio astronomy, transistors, and Unix?


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