2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI | Make the monopolies make counter-proposals
I say, make the monopolies put their money where their mouth is. Have them put a counter proposal on the ballot. With stipulations and stiff and unappealable penalties if they don't meet their promised deployment goes. |
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mocycler
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join:2001-01-22
Naperville, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I would be cool with that...but what similar mechanism can be put in place to protect the taxpayers if the municipal project goes belly-up?
If SBC/Comcast had any brains, they would shut up and allow the municipal deployment. Then when it bankrupts, they buy it out for pennies on the dollar...complete with infrastructure, customer base, etc.
If the cities are successful, then SBC/Comcast builds out their own network according to their own business plan and engages in legitimate competition for customers...which is what they claim they want anyway.
To be fair, if I were an SBC employee living in that area, I would kind of resent my tax dollars being used this way.
peace,
mocycler
[text was edited by author 2003-03-25 19:26:56] |
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2farfromCO7
join:2000-10-14
Farmington, MI
| Simple, the officials who ran the system get voted out of office, and the budget gets overhauled. As long as, the system is controlled by democratically elected officials, it will have 10 times the accountability, efficiency, and productivity of unregulated monopolies. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| said by 2farfromCO7  :
it will have 10 times the accountability, efficiency, and productivity of unregulated monopolies.
Question... say the voters do not approve the measure and the mayors, as they have claimed, continue to build it anyway against the will of the people. Is this the kind of accountability you had in mind?
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