McCain Introduces Broadband Bill > Deregulation

Deregulation

The Power mess was caused by deregulation that wasn't really deregulation. The companies were still partialy regulated. Partial regulation is the worst thing. Yes, there are problems with a lieze-fair (I'm not french, sorry for the spelling) approach which can foster monopolies and can hurt consumers. The other choice is government regulation which forces multiple companies to share lines and a consumer base. Regulation can keep prices low, but with lower prices, you usualy get lower quality unless you get government to subsodize, which is usualy bad news. Regulation hurts telecom companies, they have invested in putting up lines (in some cases over invested) and are working to milk that investment. If the government forces those lines to be shared, why should companies make those investments? Deregulation has its problems, but they are less than full regulation.

hey yo what planet do you live on?????? www.newnetworks.com
what part of the telco's wrote off the copper network at a cost of 21 billion to the taxpayers in 84 or so (while back)
the 96 act was to return the local loop to it's rightful owners....US yes us the little guy taxpayers even only these guys cheat steal hell they make bill clinton look like the pope come to my office and read the 6 boxes of paperwork i got from my LEC cute little notes "lets the 4 of us get togther and make a plan of attack and get rid of this guy he has filed 2 puc complaints already" they need to be exiled to adack alaska