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| It is sad, the whole breakup of Bell really destroyed the best telephone system in the world and while they were at it destroyed a national brain trust! Judge Greene committed treason, in my honest opinion and was likely in the pocket of MCI and those that were able to profit on the breakup of Bell assets! I tell you, while there were some aspects of a telephone monopoly that were not the best ... I think the good far out weighed the bad.
Do to what the Government did to AT&T when they broke up Bell... why would any company want to invest in Fiber as an alternative to cooper as they worry that someday the government will come along and tell them, thanks for spending billions on infrastructure, now you are a monopoly, now you must open your fiber to anyone that wants to sell service!
The Government has to guarantee that they will not force AT&T, Verizon,etc, from sharing their fiber networks if they are going to consider fiber as the replacement to cooper. The Government should also must subsidize VZ and AT&T to lay infrastructure in the rural areas. Tell the government to pull foreign aid and spend money on America for a change! Hell, how many billions were sent to Israel this year? How many billions in Iraq? It's time for priorities to focus on the home-front and in order to keep America competitive we must be able to deliver the future, broadband, to our entire nation as to make sure people, businesses and schools have access to the new connected world!
Good reading material on the subject of rural infrastructure that may give some good insight on what would need to be done today in order to achieve a fully connected modern nation:
The Rape of Ma Bell by ALFRED W. DUERIG and CONSTANTINE RAYMOND KRAUS
Read it online:
»www.porticus.org/bell/rapeofmabell.htm |
you will be astounded how good 3k/sec can sound.