JohnSJ
join:2004-08-14
Lafayette, LA
| Re: What a crock! It makes me crazy to keep hearing the silly idea that cities regulate telecos (or cablecos).This is supposed to evoke the vision of big mean government picking on poor little free enterprise company. What a crock! This BellSouth International Mega Corp with an income to rival medium-sized countries beating on Lafayette. Come on.
The truth of regulation is that the Telecos are given a free ride to use local property (aka rights-of-way) by federal law. There is some state-level regulation but the idea that the city of Lafayette regulates BellSouth in any real way is laughable. And any telco rep should know that. It's the PSC, not the village of Anacoco, that regulates BellSouth in Louisiana. (Insofar as BellSouth is regulated at all,)
Just for the record, the cabelcos aren't "regulated" by the cities either. Cablecos enter into contracts to use city property, the above mentioned rights of way, in exchange for money and services. |
