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Re: We the PEOPLE own the spectrum said by Bobbox1980 :
You forgot one very important thing:
The PEOPLE own the wireless spectrum, NOT the companies who license the spectrum. Z80 already pointed out the failure of your logic here. Let me just expand on it a bit. The people want service providers to provide service. To get investors to be willing to invest their money building a service for the public, it is necessary to make the operation of that service more profitable than any other use of the money to be invested. That's why service providers don't just bend over and give consumers whatever they want. Service providers wouldn't exist unless the financial obligations to investors was paramount; customer satisfaction is important, yes, but as a tool to achieve profit. That's the balance. It isn't one sided, just focused on the customer's wants. It is a two-way street: The consumer gets some, and the investor gets some. And remember that the investor always has somewhere else to invest their money, and so that balance between what consumers want and what investors want must always result in the investor getting a better deal than someone else is offering the investor, just like it must result in the consumer getting a better deal that someone else is offering the consumer.
If someone else is offering you a better deal, then take it.
said by Bobbox1980 :
Don't be an apologist for the telcos. Don't be a naive apologist for consumerists.
said by Bobbox1980 :
All a telco cares about is increasing revenue and profit. All consumers care about is their own selfish desires. Everyone plays their own role in the system. |
