nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
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1 edit | gee, ain't duopoly competition great!
[sarcasm] wow, with these behemoths slugging it out (in the press, anyway), I can just feel those lower prices and higher speeds anytime now. [/sarcasm]
Just think of what real competition would be like!
From one of the articles:
"Seidenberg says the market--not the government--needs to decide who will help subsidize the billions of dollars telcos like Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) are spending to bury fiber-optic pipe across the U.S."
Sounds like the good 'ole telco mindset to me: we're not building anything unless you guarantee we make a profit. Note the use of the word "subsidize" - that's how the existing networks got built, by government mandating that customers subsidize the investment thru guaranteed profit. Now they want the same deal with fiber; it's worse this time , however, because the bells are using fiber to REPLACE their copper. What they should be doing is turning the legacy copper over to the government (or to the customers that subsidized it) for any company that wants to use it. If they did that though, there would be some actual competition and they certainly don't want that.
I don't think the bells ever understood what the word "competition" means. |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
Premium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | I'd prefer a Triopoly or Quadaoply |
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
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join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
clubs: | MrChris stated
"I'd prefer a Triopoly or Quadaoply"
Why dont you start a company to compete then.
hob
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| If he had the ability to build a network without any bureaucratic interference for decades with absolutely nobody to compete with them then MAYBE it would be level playing field. We can't have true competition until the playing field is levelled. The last time that happened was not long ago with the 1996 Telco Act.
Interesting how such innovations like true broadband and DSL technology popped out of the woodwork from Bell competitors at exactly that same time while the Bells were still selling old ISDN and T1 technology at inflated prices. |
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