Ryno
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join:2001-04-07
Danielsville, PA | reply to brandon
Re: Finally
Yeh right, lets give the phone companies more breaks while they still refuse to invest outside of towns. Phone and cable keep upping the ante in town yet ignoring those people whos houses aren't 20 per block. |
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brandon
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join:2003-03-31
Hurley, MS | I'm living proof of the opposite my friend. |
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SpitefulCrow
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join:2003-06-04
Berkeley, CA | reply to Ryno
You know why? Because they LOSE MONEY if they do so. No company worth its salt will take actions that result in a net loss.  |
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niko01
join:2004-01-19
Houston, TX
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"More breaks?!?!" Ok, let me see if I get this... Saying that, "yes, Mr. BOC, you can invest billions of dollars in a network and we will not nationalize it and make you "share" it..." is giving them a break?
Harkening back to the days of the old monopoly is getting really really old. If you forgot, they broke AT&T up 22 years ago. The CLECs could have used those 22 years to invest in infrastructure or diversify. They did not.
The real competition is not between ILEC and CLEC - it is between DSL and cable, wireline and wireless, cable and satellite, copper and fiber.
I pay $46.95 per month for DSL and unlimited long distance - those two combined are less than my AT&T wireless bill. What, on the face of this planet, as a consumer, in your wildest dreams, could you possibly have to bitch about if someone wants to invest billions in more infrastructure and not be forced by a bloated, political, regulatory agency, to share it with people who do not have enough sense to invet in their OWN businesses...? |
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