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Re: Whats next? said by Camelot One:I am as anti-telco as the next guy, but I'm not sure the government needs to get involved in private party contract law. As long as both sides (the company and the consumer) are aware of the etf before the contract is signed, there shouldn't be a problem. I would however like to see some sort of regulation in place requiring your signature before the company can just automatically renew/extend the original contract though. I look at it like parents and children. If children can do the right thing and play fair, parents generally won't get involved with their lives unless its major things. The problem is, children can't do this.
The same can be said for large corporations when dealing with their customers. If they would stop trying to find ways to screw over their customers for as much money as possible (ETF's, long-term contracts, etc, etc) then the parents (government) wouldn't have to keep stepping in to try to stop them.
I'm actually one for less government intervention, but the fact is, without it, things would go back to the wild wild west days with snake oil salesman selling, well, snake oil.
One recommendation would be businesses who are recognized as being competitive and extremely pro-consumer would get tax breaks, certain preferential treatment, priority for government work, blah, blah, blah.
In most cases, government is more than happy to screw over the consumer if it helps big business and lines their pockets but eventually, the big guys screw over the little guys so much that government has to step in and say "no more". |
