sonicmerlin
join:2009-05-24
Cleveland, OH
| reply to JSRoman
Re: Um...
The FCC did a decent job under a Democratic President and Congress, and a so-so job under a Democratic President and Republican Congress. Now that we're back under Democratic control of both branches I'm looking forward to some serious anti-trust litigation. |
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Vast Wasteland
@sbcglobal.net
| said by sonicmerlin  :The FCC did a decent job under a Democratic President and Congress I guess you slept through the outrageous farce which is the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A Democratic Congress wrote it, a Democratic President signed it and a Democratic FCC implemented it. |
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sonicmerlin
join:2009-05-24
Cleveland, OH | The Telecommunications Act was actually very effective at first. Competition began to flourish in the mid to late 90's. It wasn't until the FCC, (Republican) Congress, and the courts gutted it later on, that it became a farce. |
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Supervisor
Premium
join:2006-03-26
Lebanon, PA
| reply to Vast Wasteland
said by Vast Wasteland :
I guess you slept through the outrageous farce which is the Telecommunications Act of 1996. A Democratic Congress wrote it, a Democratic President signed it and a Democratic FCC implemented it.
I thought the problem with the 1996 Act was how the FCC dismantled it 7 years later with the Triennial Review Order. |
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Vast Wasteland
@sbcglobal.net | reply to sonicmerlin
I guess that's why the bandits behind Northpoint, Rhythms and a dozen other paper CLECs ran off with the money.
You can't create a competitive market from an oligopoly with a pen. |
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