Re: Covering cost vs profit

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TechieZero Tools Are Using Me Premium join:2002-01-25 Gibsonton, FL Reviews: ·Verizon FiOS	reply to thecp Re: Covering cost vs profit said by thecp: It has been said... LOL. Ok, you've convinced me. Monopolies are the pioneers of innovation! Don't shoot the messenger...I am not the one who has come up with this. There are many technologists who agree with this. TBH I don't care if you believe me or not. If Canada wants to repeat the same mistakes...more power to them. After the break-up the telco's were forced to share infrastructure. This made us lazy. Enough said.
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firephoto Facts hurt Premium join:2003-03-18 Brewster, WA	said by TechieZero: said by thecp: It has been said... LOL. Ok, you've convinced me. Monopolies are the pioneers of innovation! Don't shoot the messenger...I am not the one who has come up with this. There are many technologists who agree with this. TBH I don't care if you believe me or not. If Canada wants to repeat the same mistakes...more power to them. After the break-up the telco's were forced to share infrastructure. This made us lazy. Enough said. They are capping and charging for overage. They get more money for less data. They have reduced loads. Nothing in this plan makes it even necessary for them to innovate because they have a government imposed handout so they don't care about making the pipe bigger or faster they just shop for existing tech that is cheaper. -- Say no to JAMS!
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TechieZero Tools Are Using Me Premium join:2002-01-25 Gibsonton, FL	So the answer is more government?
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Gami00 join:2010-03-11 Mississauga, ON	said by TechieZero: So the answer is more government? yup, that's why we're in a democracy. A government agency allowed a horrible Idea to be implemented. We need the government Heads (i.e. the PM here/and his ministers of cabinet) to rescind that. if you don't like it that way, you can just skip all the formal crap, and go straight to ARMed/violent revolt to over-throw the government and it's agencies, and then fix the issue once the new power is in place.
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Joe2 @qwest.net	reply to TechieZero Actually, they'd still have it illegal to hook any non-Bell phone upto their network, and of course they'd look down on VOIP, email, cheap cell phones, and so on. After the breakup, we went to standards based on the existing infrastructure, custom phones (that fit that electrical standard), modems (that fit that standard) that can go upto 56k on downloads, thus a demand for broadband which bypasses those standards, thus VOIP that bypasses the need for a landline or cell, thus... Oh and the irony: They still controlled the markets so you were stuck with a limited local service. The national long distance fee essentially unlocked the lines for competition that allowed the Internet to go commercial. Look into your history of Edison and Bell... They loved to stomp on any kind of competition with extralegal or lobbying actions. Burning telephones ring a bell, err no pun intended?
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ross7 join:2000-08-16	reply to TechieZero Don't shoot the messenger...I am not the one who has come up with this. There are many technologists who agree with this. TBH I don't care if you believe me or not. If Canada wants to repeat the same mistakes...more power to them. After the break-up the telco's were forced to share infrastructure. This made us lazy. Enough said. Nobody but the incumbents were lazy. They manipulated the availability of credit, access to infrastructure, and limits to growth. In the end, they will pay for their shortsighted greed and unchecked megalomania. The Telcos stipulated and AGREED to line sharing to get back in the Long Lines business. Once The Telecom Act of 1996 went into effect, the Telcos actively interfered with every potential competitor, thumbed their nose at lawful regulators and agencies that were authorized to manage and arbitrate the use of shared infrastructure. The Telcos abrogated every term of the agreement they wrote and presented as the solution to competition or lack thereof for infrastructure. They said one thing and then the duplicitous SOBs set about ending any chance of competition in the marketplace, ever. They put countless superior tech companies out of business, sucked up their assets and careened on down the road drunk with their sense of invulnerability. If their plan continues, it will succeed so well they will have blown their own big clown feet clean off in a very public manner. They will get nailed for being the thieves and plunderers they are, and gratefully acquiesce to life as a plain Jane service provider, at a fixed rate of return reflective of true cost, competing on CUSTOMER SERVICE ISSUES, PERIOD. Or, they will become a government run, regulated utility at or near cost. And, you, my dedicated enemy, will have to take a REAL job!
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WernerSchutz join:2009-08-04 Sugar Land, TX	Wow, someone that dislikes the incumbents more than me ! Good post.
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