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|  FCC Dereg efforts are succeeding
The FCC has set up a deregulatory environment that has seen large scale innovation in the marketplace. It would be ashamed if this drive to innovation would be curtailed by any Congressional action to re-regulate the communications field. Regulation only leads to stagnation and higher costs as companies spend huge amounts of money dealing with and buying off bureaucrats and politicians.
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| said by TKJunkMail  :Regulation only leads to stagnation and higher costs as companies spend huge amounts of money dealing with and buying off bureaucrats and politicians. They "spend huge amounts of money dealing with and buying off bureaucrats and politicians" regardless of whether there is regulation or not. Deregulation will never solve that problem. As well, deregulation creates new problems itself.
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The Telecommunication Act was not 'deregulatory', correct?
Yet it spawned an entire CLEC industry which moved the ILECs off their bums to provide affordable internet access to the public.
Before TA'96, ISDN was the most affordable, 'high speed' method of accessing the net even though DSL was a known technology.
While TA'96 had its flaws, it did a lot of good as far as greatly expanding access to the web as well as providing cheaper telephone rates.
Not all regulation is evil. I like Free Market in principle, but a Free Market with no government oversight breeds monopolies, which in turn stagnates innovation. Were we humans free of greed, I'd be all for an unrestricted Free Market. Until that time comes, I welcome *some* government oversight.
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I think I already asked you this on another thread Road Warrior, but what telco do you work for?
Honestly though, do you consider the U.S. falling from 1st in the world to 16th in the world in broadband a success on the FCC's part? That's what has happened while this FCC has been on the job.
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3 edits | said by nasadude :I think I already asked you this on another thread Road Warrior, but what telco do you work for? Never worked for a telco. I was Dir Telecomm/Datacomm at a large multi-state corporation and negotiated contracts(along with a passel of lawyers, which explains why I hate lawyers) with major telcos and network equipment vendors before I retired. During my tenure, in a 5 yr period, we cut our telecomm budget from $20 million/yr down to $5 million/yr and did that without outsourcing the work. So for us the 1996 dereg worked great.
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said by KoolMoe :... I like Free Market in principle, but a Free Market with no government oversight breeds monopolies, which in turn stagnates innovation. ...
Amen to that. The bells sat on DSL technology for years, terrified that it would eat into their vastly overpriced DS-1 "private line" business. To this day, they throttle one direction of the connection to preserve the artificially high price point of private line services.
Martin thinks we have competition now? What if he and his cronies had preserved line sharing and reasonable rates for unbundled loops and collocation space? Rhythms, NorthPoint, and Covad might be right out there with cable and incumbent telco.
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...and how much of that savings was LD savings, from the competition in LD which developed when the ILECs were kept out and competition developed nicely without Ivan, Ed, and the other monopolists controlling the business?
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| said by calvoiper :...and how much of that savings was LD savings, from the competition in LD which developed when the ILECs were kept out and competition developed nicely without Ivan, Ed, and the other monopolists controlling the business? calvoiper Most of that was in Long Distance voice savings and in reduced private line data costs. But a good chunk was in lower costs for PBXs/CBXs as well. And in a switchover from an old IBM SNA network to an intranet setup with routers, switches, etc.
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| Well, the LD and private line data costs all dropped because of "managed competition". PBXs exist only because the Bells were required to allow them as competition for Centrex service. So, except for the direct Internet savings over the SNA, it was all due to "managed" or "regulated" competition, not total free market yee-hah.
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