calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to richardpor
Re: Time to Thow In the towel.
said by richardpor  :...there should be a way for Bell South revoke any conditions of the franchising agreement and sue for breach of contact and to recover any cost and taxes and to terminate at will any services in Lafayette. Say what? The franchise agreement doesn't protect BS from competition--if it did, the cable guys couldn't get into the business. Besides, even those franchise agreements that pretended to grant total monopolies were tossed out by the Telecom Act of '96.
And yes, a few telcos pushed the idea that they were "entitled" to get "compensation" for the loss of their "contracted monopoly". They uniformly lost their arguments because there is no protectable property interest in government policies UNLESS they are specifically spelled out in contracts, which Bell monopolies never were.
And as for "terminating service at will", there is a little non-franchise matter of state public utility statutes to worry about, but I realize such concerns get in the way of a serious hissy fit, which seems to be what you advocate for BS to undertake....
calvoiper
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