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Re: fu to Verizon said by PX Eliezer:said by jmn1207:Every successful business "cherrypicks", even McDonalds and Walmart. It makes sense to research and identify locations that will provide the most profit for your business. The local phone companies such as Verizon are still very dominant in their service territories. They were legal government-sanctioned monopolies for 100 years and in many cases still are functional monopolies. That's the difference compared to McDonalds or Walmart. So are you telling me that there are NO alternatives to the phone company these days? Really? Why is Verizon (and AT&T) getting into the video business? Could it be that they're having their clocks cleaned on the voice front by companies like Comcast? Why yes, that's exactly one of the reasons. Even though Verizon is the phone company in my market, to believe I don't have alternatives is just silly. I have more today than ever before. I can opt to go with a different phone carrier, or I could go VoIP (Comcast, Vonage), or I could go all cellular, or hell, I could go with Magic Jack (not that I would). The notion that my choices are MORE limited than before is just wrong. Does everyone have those same choices? Nope - but just because additional choices aren't expanding at an equal rate across the country doesn't mean that competition hasn't increased over the last several years. It most definitely has. |
