pnh102
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Mount Airy, MD
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| Fire The Regulators
Regulators who were obviously born after 1983 and who also probably haven't heard of companies like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel have allowed way too many mergers over the past 15-20 years. This consolidation has led to reduced choices for consumers and ultimately higher prices for things like energy, telegraph service and cable TV. These mergers have also led to significant job cuts for people whose positions were duplicated in the merging companies. It would be nice if the government (at any level) would stop just approving any old merger and actually think things through first.
Allowing Ma Bell to come back together in any way, shape or form is an awful idea.
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packetscan
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Bridgeport, CT
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| I agree with you Pnh102.
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The FCC chief should be canned for incompetence. Just like Mr. (i don't know WTF is going on{Katrina disaster}) Brown.
These Mergers are only limiting the Products that can reach customers. Now that SBC and AT&T have merged were is the competition bringing down the price?
Sprint and Nextel have Merged. Where is the competition there? My cell/digital choices have been halved because of these mergers and i don't see a price cut (competition).
It's Time to Look into Corruption @ the FCC.. As it seems that there is already a Federal Probe into Criminal activities by congress/Senate/lobbyists(only one lobbyist so far, from the new article i heard last even on the 11 oclock news).
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to pnh102
Just out of curiosity, (using your words) how can a "Regulator" that was born after 1983 allow too many mergers in the past 15-20 years?
Being that 1983 was only 22 years ago, that would mean these "regulators" of yours begin "regulating" when they were at most between the ages of 2 and 7. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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| said by Skippy25  :Being that 1983 was only 22 years ago, that would mean these "regulators" of yours begin "regulating" when they were at most between the ages of 2 and 7. It was sarcasm. While most regulators were probably born before 1983, they sure as hell are ignorant of events which took place with respect to Ma Bell prior to 1983.
And as for oil company mergers that went on in the late 1990s and early 2000s, my first thought was "haven't any of these idiots learned the lessons of Standard Oil" and how bad it is for the economy to have too few suppliers of something like energy?
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haplo2112
join:2003-05-12
Charlton, MA
| reply to pnh102
Problem is the MA Bell Breakup never really did what it was intended to do...
The break up was supposed to allow the Baby Bells to eventually start operating in each others markets for local service, and eventually start offering Long Distance in competition with AT&T.
Except for some limited areas the local service Competition never really got fired up, instead the Baby Bells just started buying each other and the other companies that were competing on a small scale in their areas.
The Best example is Verizon. After the Breakup I lived in a New England Telephone area. We had basically Zero other options besides New England Tele. None really ever appeared, then they merged with another Baby Bell in New York that created Nynex, then GTE (which had pulled some other other baby bells and a couple baby bell competitors together, if memory serves) merged with Nynex to create the Verizon Behemoth.
The same has happened in other parts of the country, but in very few areas is there any overlap.
With SBC merging with AT&T and becoming AT&T the Bell Pie is pretty much starting to come back together. I suppose with that merger after 21 years we might be seeing the first glimmers of the breakups Original intention as that does put the SBC baby bell conglomerate and the Verizon Behemoth in competition for Long Distance. |
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Cheese
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Naples, FL
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said by packetscan :Sprint and Nextel have Merged. Where is the competition there? My cell/digital choices have been halved because of these mergers and i don't see a price cut (competition). Verizon, Alltel, Cingular, Metro PCS. No competition eh? |
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aelfwyne
join:2004-01-28
Beaumont, TX | reply to haplo2112
Those in the know have known this was coming, ever since SWB merged with PacBell and became SBC. |
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packetscan
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| reply to Cheese
Had verizon .. They lasted a month. you couldn't turn your head and still recive a signal. ( so i dumped them).
The other you mention don't operate in my area.
So no there is still no competition.
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packetscan
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Sarcasm..
Here is that comprehension problem i was discussing earlier.
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dslreprtlover
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First of all Alltel has limited phoneprint, I beleive metropcs does to- kinda of link regional provider in a few states, so it leaves sprint, verizon, cingular, and t-mobile but t-mobile has horrible service, cingular is overpriced for services, verizon cripples bluetooth. |
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