AT&T Gets Phone Price Caps Lifted In Kansas

Ever borrowed money form mom and dad after you moved out on your own? Sure you did. I guess they bailed YOU our didn't they?

and the ecomomy would be worse off.

Except it was in the form of a tax credit instead of a loan that had to explicitly be paid back.

Tax credits allow you to keep your own money, not borrow someone else's.

No....Bailout means someone screwed up.

The point is it is essentially a monopoly industry,

thats because the Telco does not own NJ, the Mafia does.

and I dont see Verizon pushing the Mob out any time soon when it comes to owned political critters.

Wire line carriers would like to force customers from regulated service to unregulated service.

The two major wire line carriers have wireless networks so why not force customers to cellular

Once Bush took over, his administration stabbed the CLEC's in the back.

If the wire line carriers were forced to divest their interests in their wireless networks they would changer their tune. Wire line prices would go down and suddenly there might be no benefit in switching to cellular.

If the wire line carriers were forced to divest their interests in their wireless networks they would changer their tune. Wire line prices would go down and suddenly there might be no benefit in switching to cellular.

The Phone Parasites never mention that they were given a gift from Uncle Sam when AT&T was broken up in 1984. It is the Customer Access Line Charge. It has swelled from $0.50 for the first residential line and $3.50 for each additional residential line, to a current charge from $6.00 to $7.00 per line for every residential line.

There have been many articles in telephone industry newspapers and magazines, regarding how the cost to provide telephone service has declined because of advancements in technology. The Telephone weasels are greedy and even though they are making record profits they want more. They remind me of the pigs down at the hog farm. Middle Class Citizens do not have a chance against a corrupt government whose lawmakers accept campaign contributions for their vote to enrich special interests.

Term limits would make everything worse. Being an endless rotating cycle of characters would make the system full of essentially industry shills.

The key is getting the money out of the system altogether through public financing.

The costs aren't really rising.

I don't see why rates should be artificially capped when it does indeed cost real money to keep that service in place.

Bunch of crying, whining, ignorant at&t haters who don't have a clue as to why this deregulation happened.

Isn't that why we've been paying into the USF since the Spanish-American War??

Our wireless bills went down a few dollars a month last summer.

The legislature here is extremely consumer protection oriented.