Anon | Washington State Complant for All Washington State residents! I just got off the phone with the Utilities and Transportation Commission about taking action against NorthPoint. I was told they had not received enough consumer complaints to take action as of yet. It is now time to bombard them! Make them stand up and look at this issue. You can submit an online complaint at:
»www.wutc.wa.gov/webcommt.nsf/Web···openform |
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 taoChaos ImpendsPremium
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Lansing, MI | Complain about what?
That Verizon pulled out?
That AT&T will not do what they cannot do?
That Northpoint had a business plan that did not work?
How about this one?
Verizon can be my CLEC, ILEC, and ISP for $39.99 per month, and Qwest is about the same, yet no other form of DSL can be offered that low. This means that the Telecomm Act of 1996 has not worked in Washington state. There is no competition, the telcos have not opened their lines for competition, in spite of the fact that both Verizon and Qwest offer multi-state long distance services.
If there exists a choice, it is limited and the price is surely dictated by Verizon and Qwest. The price they charge for consumer DSL services represents a barrier to entry for other companies. The price variation for Business class DSL reveals a much smaller percentage of price difference.
One can only wonder how this is not monopolistic. My ability to choose is restricted more with each passing day. What Verizon did to Northpoint, IMHO, did cripple them, and did serve to restrict competition in consumer DSL. By pulling out of the merger deal with Northpoint, Verizon had to know Northpoint would eventually fail.
Not to blame Verizon for this, but rather to implore the FCC and Congress to exercise their oversite mandates and therefore, their responsibilities to the marketplace. If $49 per month DSL is known to be unprofitable, then what in the world are we to think that $39 represents? Simple, an anchor on competition, named as competition.
Cheers,
Mike
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 DrTCPYours trulyPremium,ExMod 1999-04
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Round Rock, TX | reply to Anon
Someone already filed Class Action against NP at California.
See this thread. |
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said by net123:
Complain about what?
Complain that Northpoint cut service without the required notice. (Most states require 30-60 days notice prior to terminating service.) |
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taoChaos ImpendsPremium
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Lansing, MI | And bankrupt companies are difficult to penalize. That is not to say that I am happy, but rather that the horse has died..
Cheers,
Mike
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And bankrupt companies are difficult to penalize. That is not to say that I am happy, but rather that the horse has died..
Cheers,
Mike
The penalty would be nixing the AT&T deal, or taking a cut of the $135 million away from the unreasonably banks.
We all know it would have only taken $2.4 million to keep the network running an extra month, and the ISPs would have paid. I hope that the CPUC's fine in the case really hurts the banks. |
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taoChaos ImpendsPremium
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Lansing, MI | State utility commissions have no recourse but to sue in Federal Court to overturn another Federal Court decision. This is to say that the individual state regulatory bodies cannot upsurp the power granted the federal courts. No state entity is more powerful than _any_ Federal entity.
That said, I am not a lawyer, and do realize that all things are possible. But they are generally made possible by lawsuit, not by objection for any supposed cause.
I will stand that my compliant, and the complaint of others, should and would be better placed against Verizon and Qwest for monopolistic behavior.
Cheers,
Mike
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