JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA
| reply to mculbert
Re: Public dissatisfied with ILECs
To clarify things:
The bells inherited the existing infrastructure in 1996 when things were deregulated and the existing bells went from public utilities to private companies that didn't have to spend a penny of investor money to build networks from the ground up. While parts of the networks have been updated, the bells have been on easy street by not having to start from scratch. So any time they say the networks are investor built, that's only a small part of the larger picture.
Deregulation really should have made separate network "operator" type companies and services companies out of the bells to begin with so as to prevent the debacle we have now, but that would have made too much sense.
[text was edited by author 2003-03-30 23:08:54] |
