ominae
join:2003-05-11
Columbus, OH
| reply to Fatal Vector
Re: The trouble
it may be one of your "checks and balances", but i highly doubt that bellsouth had anything so noble in mind. it appears to me that free market is playing out in lafayette (i.e. supply and demand). problem: residents of lafayette wanted better internet service, bellsouth (and others) were unwilling to provide it. solution: build it yourself.
if bellsouth and cox are the primary isp's in the area and want to keep the citizen's of lafayette as paying customers then why don't they simply offer the services their customers want? my guess is they don't want to spend the capital needed to upgrade their existing networks. it doesn't make much sense from bellsouth's point of view to spend money building a new network if you can continue making a profit from on that's already in place (even if it's not filling your customers demands for better service).
it's simple: build it or get out of the way so somebody else can. |
