Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to Alpine
Re: Too Big for Their Britches
You are just simply sad.
I could give you $1,000,000,000 in startup capital to start a telco / broadband / video company of your own and you would STILL NOT be able to compete or even get a decent amount of coverage in any major city within 5 years if you had to build out your own infrastructure.
What point of that do people like you miss? You think you can just file a business application and start digging up yards and roads to lay that fiber down as if it were a lemonade stand you were starting. Are you really that IQ challenged? (I'm guessing you aren't, but instead are an employee of one of the monopolies)
It is a monopolistic service by nature because of the extreme barriers to entry even when you remove money from the picture. That is compounded by the monopolistic strategies employed by the companies that are already in the service. The entire infrastructure needs to be taken away from all of these companies (cable and telco) and owned and operated by an independent company or 2 (or the government). Then any and every company that wants to fight for our dollar is able to do it on a level playing field throughout the entire country without the extreme political barriers or the extreme market entry obstacles that exist now.
I as a consumer should not have to have my yard, my neighbor's yard, nor the parking lot of the local grocery store dug up everytime I want to change local or long distance carriers or broadband providers. I shouldn't have to have 8 lines hanging off my house for each time that has occured. I as a citizen shouldn't have to have 10 or 20 companies that want to compete for my business tearing up my local roads every other week to install their lines so they are able to bring me these services I may or may not want. I'm guessing you wouldn't want that either, but what you really want is for companies that want to compete against yours to have to pay you a lot more and charge the consumers a lot more so that in the end your already inflated profits can become more inflated by A) you getting more out of your competitor B) you charging more now because you can raise your prices and yet still under cut your competitors. |
