Stating that that the providers should "share" because the government puts money up is ridiculous. Sure, they use our tax dollars for spending there but lets get real. At least with Verizon's FiOS initiative Verizon and it's investors not the government are paying for deployment. If you want to say the government has helped I can't deny that. But that amount is not as much as you'd think and to say it means Verizon should have to share all out is just dumb.
If the companies are force to share then the companies that leach that sharing should be forced to rent it. -- »www.fairtax.org
You do realize that every penny ever earned by one of these companies is a direct result of initial government subsidies and government granted monopolies right?
They can rebuild the network hundreds of times with "their" money, but that money will always be a result of what WE gave them to begin with and what WE continue to give them now in other subsidies and corporate "friendly" policy.
So what, that still doesn't mean "we" own it. It means our tax dollars had a hand in helping build it. Which BTW, what makes you think that because our tax dollars paid for anything means we get to control it? The government doesn't work that way. -- »www.fairtax.org
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