| reply to Mr Matt
Re: Separate transport and content! said by Mr Matt:  Sorry folks but we are going to increase competition but it will cost you more. The solution is to do what was done in 1984 when the Government broke up the Bell System into regulated service, non-regulated service and long distance service. Separate the Telephone Business into switching and network. The same would hold true for the cable companies. One company would own the network for transport and the others would supply content. The transport companies would be regulated and the content providers would compete. Once that plan goes into effect the customer will be hit with below line charges that will not be disclosed until they are under contract and receive their first bill. Do you live on the moon. In 1982 I made phoncalls to Germany for over $1 a minute, paid MaBell monthly for my telephone hardware (mandatory), had to share my line with a neighbor, and paid greater than 25 cents a minute for Long Distance. In this day and age it costs slightly more a month for Flatrate everything than customers paid for monthly service charge pre Deathstar breakup. How you can proclaim that doing the same to ISPs would have the opposite effect is either an indication of you a birth date greater than 1984, or having lived under a rock/in a cave somewhere. |
