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Re: DSL open networks/fair? But only because BellSouth is working the way the law intended them to do so. There is not reason that BellSouth will not pull the same stuff Verizon has. In fact it is probable that they will some day when put in a pinch to crush the local competition.
My point being that the law is flawed and that the telco, the cable company, the sattelite provider, anyone that the government is trying to force these regulations on, can eventually use it the opposite way it was intended.
Destroying local competition by having the law deny them to build there own networks forcing them to use the big company. When you are forced to use, say Verizon as your DSL provider, then you have no choice but to pay there outragous fees for that open access. This is one way the big guys have or will use the law to there advantage.
Truth is you cannot force local competition by forcing open networks. You can allow competition by removing force. The broadband industry and the internet as a whole has a way of working things out themselves without attempts by government. In the long run allowing legitimate battles between providers will work out just fine. What the law is trying to do and what they will accomplish are 2 different things. The idea of what it will provide is very nice but look at my example of how it was abused and how it will probably eventually be abused in your area. BellSouth is no different than Verizon and an example is easily followed. |
