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4 edits | Here's the bottom line: We were sold down the river by the Bush FCC. They took ALL the competition out of Internet. You TRUE conservatives should be LIVID at them! Why? Because IF you truly believe in the free market, then what the Bush FCC did
(essentially ELIMINATE the free market in Internet) should REALLY piss you off!
I live right in the heart of Los Angeles. I have TWO basic ways to get Internet: cable or DSL. CABLE gives me TWO choices: Time Warner or Earthlink. Basically, if I want cable Internet, I have to choose between service that either sucks or REALLY SUCKS!
Great choice!
With DSL I have a few more choices-IF I sign up for AT&T home phone service. If I don't, then I have but ONE CHOICE-AT&T dynamic dry line Internet.
So no matter what I do, I have to pay AT&T something if I want DSL!
Remember, with open access the companies who built the infrastructure do get paid-they simply have to let competitors LEASE part of that infrastructure (the 'last mile') from them for WHOLESALE PRICES. They still get their flesh-just a half pound instead of a pound!
Not only that-but the telcos AGREED TO DO SO-then with the help of the Bush FCC were allowed to renege on their part of the agreement.
If the FCC had truly allowed/required open access, I imagine that I'd have 20 or more choices for Internet, most NOT requiring me to pay AT&T anything. I'd also wager that I'd be paying less then I do (38 dollars a month for lineshare 6000/768 DSL, plus another 10 dollars a month to AT&T for measured phone service that I hardly ever use) AND getting higher speeds!
The way things are, I have two cable choices and ONE DSL choice that doesn't involve me having to buy phone service.
In the second largest city in America no less!
That's pathetic!
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1 edit | how many companies are going to spend MILLIONS to build a 3rd, or 4th cable system? It just doesnt give you much ROI with so much $ put into it and a small penetration rate...
you also have satellite internet as a choice (several to choose from) and also using the cellular network |
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3 edits | said by aparis99:how many companies are going to spend MILLIONS to build a 3rd, or 4th cable system? It just doesnt give you much ROI with so much $ put into it and a small penetration rate... you also have satellite internet as a choice (several to choose from) and also using the cellular network Did you NOT READ my post at all? I said that as a result of The Telecommunications Act of 1996, the regulations were IN PLACE REQUIRING the Telcos to open their networks to others AT WHOLESALE RATES!!!!!!!!
Bush gutted them!!!!!
The wires are just sitting there unused anyway-so why not allow others to use them too-and make a few bucks while you're at it?
Satellite and cellular? Are you serious? Crap speeds and draconian caps-for hugely high prices-yeah THAT sure is serious competition! |
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the point is you DO have options |
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