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Re: Keep Government out fo this. said by Jika :Ironically Bell didn't invest a dime in the majority of the existing copper infrastructure. The taxpayers did.
That's a myth. Bell issued an IPO to raise funds 130+ years ago and bought other telco's in Canada that had built their own copper infrastructure (without taxpayer's money).
The only time Bell was given money from the government was when they were paid to build copper in some areas of Canada (low population areas, for example). It was that, or the Government creates a Crown Corp to do it instead. But then they would have eventually just sold it off to Bell anyhow.
By your logic, any company that's paid to do work for the government is being subsidized with taxpayer money.
Even Teksavvy get's tax breaks from various levels of government. So, I guess their fiber build in Perth is being funded by taxpayers as well? |
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| Except there is a big difference between direct and indirect funding.
Oh, and you forgot the Monopoly part with regulated service rates. |
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| said by backness:Except there is a big difference between direct and indirect funding.
Oh, and you forgot the Monopoly part with regulated service rates.
Taxpayer money is taxpayer money. What difference does it make if it's given directly or indirectly (whatever that means), if the end result is the same?
And a monopoly? Yes. But only because no one else wanted to do it. How does that relate to tax payers though? |
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