nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
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excuse me?
said by keyboard5684  :
To me a CLEC, or anyone who uses Verizon lines, is not a competitor. They are simply sucking off of a resource that someone else established.
you know who that someone else is? the consumer, that's who.
that infrastructure was paid for by the consuming public - the bells were allowed their monopoly in return for building the infrastructure. In other words, these monopolies were guaranteed a rate of return sufficient to pay for that copper; there was no risk, they didn't "go out on a limb" and hope they made enough money to pay for their investment, the government decided they would make the consumers provide that money, sometimes upfront before anything was built. Go ask Pennsylvania about that last one.
you better go brush up on the history of the telephone industry as you are clearly suffering some delusional beliefs. |
