'Public Interest Harm' > What about forced telco bundling?

reply to macyh

Re: What about forced telco bundling?

said by macyh:

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It's not just cable co's that are using bundling to force their services down your throat...and freeze out competition at the same time. The ILEC's are doing the same thing, and they are being even more two faced about it than the cable co's.

All ILEC's are willing to package residential and business ADSL with local dial tone and (where available) long distance for a discount, but won't give you any discount without local service dialtone..or ADSL after a "trial" contract. Don't forget, the ILEC's are also about to do away with line sharing so you can only get ADSL on your line from them, to boot. So they really do have monopoly on essential local dial tone for ADSL broadband users.

These are the same monopolies that are telling regulators:
- We lose money on residential dial tone, we can't discount it.
- We can't make any money on ADSL if we make it any cheaper.
- We won't roll out any more ADSL if we can't have a monopoly.

Simply put, by using the same bundling tactics, the ILEC's get to to have it both ways. And you get less choice as a result. So, why aren't the ILEC's being taken to task for this same issue?

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All he is simply saying are the ILEC's get ripped a new arsehole for the same thing by all the anti-big business/anti-ILEC members yet cable gets a free walk in the park. ILEC's doing this is bad, cable doing it is ok.

said by 72276539:

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All he is simply saying are the ILEC's get ripped a new arsehole for the same thing by all the anti-big business/anti-ILEC members yet cable gets a free walk in the park. ILEC's doing this is bad, cable doing it is ok.

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