http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r7986360 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:32:25 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:32:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7986360 clecrupt9 : Yes, structural separation.... worth looking at.

How is it this has not already happened somewhere?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7986360 Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:47:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7985673 KrK : The ILEC idea of competition is "We take everything we want, everything that makes good money, and is easy to do. Anything we don't want, don't care about, or is very hard to turn a profit on... the competition can have that."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7985673 Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:48:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7984520 pkust : Telcos don't want competition, don't like competition, and don't understand competition. That conclusion seems inescapable.

Given telco hostility to any form of competition, I am beginning to believe that any effort to bring competitive pressure to telco services is doomed to failure from the onset. No matter what forces are brought to bear, telcos will always seek to circumvent measures intended to promote competition.

Perhaps the solution is to let the telcos keep their monopolies--and make them stay in their monopolies. Give them a monopoly on local loops--and forbid them from ever doing anything with those loops but reselling them to a DSL vendor, VoIP vendor, et cetera. Let them keep a monopoly on local exchange service--and forbid them from selling VoIP or any other type of service.

Build the telcos a walled garden where they can play king to their hearts' content, so the rest of the world can get back to doing business in a rational, efficient, and competitive fashion.
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Cordially,

Peter Nayland Kust
pkust@smsysinc.com
Secure Mobile Systems, Inc.
www.smsysinc.com]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7984520 Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:02:27 EDT