boogie74
join:2001-06-19
Neenah, WI
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| reply to Eat Me
Re: business is business
said by Eat Me  :
You're forgetting one thing though. Cable was built with private funds, whereas the telco's are using taxpayer money.
Ummm... this myth has been dispelled long ago. Telcos are private industry- not public. The way to tell the difference is this: Public industry does not trade on the stock market- whereas private industry does. Another clue: Public industries don't revolve around "profit margins". If telcos were public and not private, no one would be bitching about "profits" being too high or "stock options" for executives.
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | reply to JohnA
You're forgetting one thing though. Cable was built with private funds, whereas the telco's are using taxpayer money. |
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clecrupt9
join:2002-01-22
GA | reply to JohnA
Well, I hope that since 96 won't be enough, maybe massive market decline from cable will force the Bells to do something- Fiber or wireless. |
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JohnA
Premium
join:2003-09-16
Pittsburgh, PA
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Sharing has been the whole drawback to Verizon fiber. Cable is not forced to share their lines and they do digital telephone on them. If you step back and look at Verizon's competition, you can't hardly expect them to make that kind of investment, just so someone else can use it to sell their service, over their lines, with someone else's brand name on it, like they're forced to do with POTS. |
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