T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
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May 11th, @06:08PM
| reply to flankspeed8
Re: Lower prices
Your not getting it. The cable companies are the ones who will be extinct in 3 years. Then you have no competition. Thus no alternatives. Thus higher bills.
The phone companies were forced to "open up" their networks. Ask anyone who has ever sold ADSL or SDSL how open it is. You can usually find them in other industries now. When was the last time you heard/saw an ad for an internet service provider besides a telco or a cable company? Can you name a local ISP in your town? Can you name an ISP in the US besides AOL and earthlink?
The 10 BILLION dollars that they are going to spend is money YOU GAVE THEM AS A TAX PAYER!!!!! Look at your phone bill and when you see "rural such and such fee" that is money they take from you over the last 10 years, regardless of if you have internet access or not, to build out their networks. Check this out »www.techdirt.com/articles/200601···_F.shtml
How do they do that? Lobbyist money. They go to their buddy in the senator, give him 3 million dollars and say, "you know, if everyone in America gave us $2.50 per month, we could really build out a cool network alot faster." Then legislation is passed so that the poor telcos have to collect an extra $2.50 per month from every American on their phone bill. That money does not go to the government, it stays with the telco. |
