| rural gets screwed EVERY TIME in these areas, i can guarantee verizon doesn't care if a muni or someone else decided to invest in a fttp network in these so-called unprofitable areas.. keep in mind once they jettison them.. there should be a lifetime ban on verizon reaquiring them-- except, unless by community referendum (vote). my reasoning.. these companies will fail-- verizon gets enriched to the tune of billion$, then buys them back on the cheap after bankruptcy-- then it suddenly becomes profitable when your up 2-3 billion... verizon can suddenly wire the rural areas at 1/10th the cost it would had the debt not gotten offloaded-- too bad they can't do that with the vodafone debt. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | What else is new? |
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The choices we make...... |
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wev567
join:2006-02-25
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to pushcomestoshove
said by pushcomestoshove :
verizon gets enriched to the tune of billion$, then buys them back on the cheap after bankruptcy--
Is there anything except conjecture that they plan to do this? Carlyle Group went bankrupt, Fairpoint is almost there, yet there's no sign VZ is interested in buying them back. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by wev567:said by pushcomestoshove :
verizon gets enriched to the tune of billion$, then buys them back on the cheap after bankruptcy--
Is there anything except conjecture that they plan to do this? Carlyle Group went bankrupt, Fairpoint is almost there, yet there's no sign VZ is interested in buying them back. You all are assuming the C* execs at AT&T and Verizon have some kind of sexual fetish about reassembling Ma Bell that reminds me of fascism.
THEY DONT!!!
If it looks like they are reassembling Ma Bell, its coincidental to dividends and profit. Remember Ma Bell was required to cross subsidize its rural universal service phone service with urban phone bills. The USF was created to continue that practice. Ma Bell was govt-corporate socialism. Verizon and AT&T would rather pocket the USF $ than hand it out to bloated ISDN or bust rural phone companies that get to charge "corporate costs" to the USF. And VZ and ATT definitely don't want to inherit the universal service/radio telephone requirements that Ma Bell had, and the business model definitions and the "corporate rights abusing" "rate of return" price caps, which define the amount of profit you can extract out of any product you sell, capping your dividends. |
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