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ross7

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Re: Covering cost vs profit

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said by thecp:

What is it with people who can't even do some basic research into monopolies in the past? Rockefeller mean anything? Old PacBell/AT&T? ...

And guess what, they were beaten down by the government...

Thats right and it has been said that AT&Ts beat down set us back over a decade as this resulted in less R & D for wireless, sat and cable technologies etc., to support telephony by the Bells and others. We are still trying to catch up.

Well, the next time the Telcos get "beat down" while on the government tit, sucking subsidies and unaccountable USF taxes limitlessly, and writing off the depreciation of ratepayer paid for assets for the hundredth gawdamn time, then again the same assets next year, call me for the party. Oh, that's right, still in self-regenerated progress. I notice also that their contrived defense to charges of monopolist behavior, COVAD the Competitor, is still deriving excessive sustenance from their parasitic relationship with AT&T. The "beat down goes on". Poor old AT&T...
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