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Re: I read this last night.... said by osravens:Except then they'll want to build a 5G network, and rip us off for that. They'll want to? I think you have that backwards, consumers want better, faster, and more reliable data networks, otherwise there would be zero incentive for a carrier to spend billions of dollars building one.
Anyway, if you think you're being ripped off, that brings us to....
said by osravens:unless the insatiable greed finally places all these companies outside what the market is willing to bear. Oh and:
said by osravens:and without some sort of regulation What does regulation have to do with prices? The carriers charge what the market will bear. Judging by the fact that they keep adding new data consumers, I'd say they aren't ripping us off. Do tell though, what kinds of regulations do you want to see, and how do you believe they bring prices down without also discouraging investments in network expansion? | |
| said by Crookshanks:said by osravens:Except then they'll want to build a 5G network, and rip us off for that. They'll want to? I think you have that backwards, consumers want better, faster, and more reliable data networks, otherwise there would be zero incentive for a carrier to spend billions of dollars building one. Recent study concluded that the majority were, in fact, happy enough with 3G.
(No, not going to look it up. It was posted to the front-page news, here, I believe. Feel free to disbelieve it if you wish.)
said by Crookshanks:...what kinds of regulations do you want to see, and how do you believe they bring prices down without also discouraging investments in network expansion? Yeah, that was SBC's argument against giving CLECs access when they initially wanted to expand their DSL footprint.
We can see how that's worked-out, can't we? Now that they've got their footprint monopoly, they want to discard it and force consumers on to the wireless network for which they whine they need more bandwidth.
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They basically started with LTE faster than other countries because Verizon skipped the whole HSPA+ step and was still on slow EVDO, and AT&T doesn't know how to or doesn't want to put the effort in required to build a dense urban HSPA+ network like has been done in many other countries. | |
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