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Martin is doing what the industry wants: everything he can so they do not have to make more in the way of capital investments in infrastructure, which is also what Wall Street wants.
Your statement might make SOME sense except for the fact that the telcos and cable companies are investing billions of dollars in infrastructure improvements every year. Don't you read the qtrly company reports posted here at BBR that show how much they are spending every quarter on infrastructure?
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Your statement would make more sense if most of these providers weren't decades behind in improving said infrastructure already. Verizon is the only large provider I recall that has actually opened up the ol'wallet for some forward looking technology. And they have taken a hell of a beating from shareholders for doing it.

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How are they "decades behind"? Or are you speaking of minimal ISDN rollouts over the last couple of decades? Presumably, you meant 5, maybe 10 if you really want to stretch, years behind.


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Billions and Billions? I think not. What they ARE doing, is paying the fat cat salaries out of 'infrastructure'. Any paying for their corporate jets, and yachts as 'infrastructure'. Actually running wires? Purchasing and installing new equipment? MAYBE 5% of their so called 'infrastrucure' budget. They ALWAYS put their perks in CAPITAL COSTS, so they can write them off.

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I always find your posts humorous. Can you point to anything, anywhere, that shows such "infrastructure" expenditures?
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