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| Know What Self Regulation Brought Us
It brought up 90% of mom and pop ISP's who were the pioneers at getting Americans online nothing but grief. Most have since gone out of business or through a series of mergers and final acquisitions by a telco disappeared entirely.
Because telco's were not required to sell at a discount they priced wholesale access to DSL a penny under what their customers would normally pay per line. So it was impossible for any of us to make a profit upgrading to DSL and as our dialup customers upgraded to DSL we were slowly forced out of business. -- Mac Chatter »www.macchatter.net |
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join:2004-01-26 Alexandria, VA | Sounds like a fundamental problem with your business plan to me. |
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