| Standard telco lies:
1) "We have not increased prices"
But costs have fallen and prices have not
2) "We need to get a return on our investment"
Smaller companies serve small customers better, and the telco charges ISPs _more_ than the retail rate. Either a) the telco is losing money on retail or b) they're squeezing the ISPs for more money than the telco can get out of the service -- I suggest b
3) "innovation"
That happens in Japan and France and in the richest suburbs where FIOS is being installed
4) "cost of infrastructure"
Bell infrastructure was built to gold plate the costs because the costs determined the revenues. Look around you -- every telco switching center is on prime real estate (tho some is in the dying center of town near the factories that were the town's life when the switching center was built).
Here in NYC, ONE BUILDING sold for $500 million
»www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/reale···f=slogin |
