 The LimitPremium
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Greensboro, NC
kudos:2 | reply to MyDogHsFleas
Re: No Here's a question for you:
What's wrong with classifying ISPs as Common Carriers?
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| said by The Limit:Here's a question for you:
What's wrong with classifying ISPs as Common Carriers?
(SARCASM) have to say this because people tend to not recognize it
Yeah, it was really wonderful when Ma Bell was a regulated monopoly/common carrier. It only took decades for them to upgrade things. Wow, I can get touchtone dialing now! It only took 10 years! Wow, I can plunk my phone into an acoustic coupler and get 300 WHOLE BITS PER SECOND! Wait, you want to plug SOMETHING BESIDES ONE OF OUR PHONES into the wall! Like a MODEM? NO NO! THAT WOULD BE BAD!
And the prices were so amazingly good. Only 10 cents a minute for long distance! Imagine that!
Let's go right back to that! I don't want innovation and competition, I like things JUST THE WAY THEY ARE NOW! |
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The LimitPremium
join:2007-09-25
Greensboro, NC
kudos:2 | ...I'm talking about now, not then. You are taking what I said out of context, so again, what's wrong with classifying carriers as common carriers? All I see is sarcasm, for once, give me a serious answer.
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| What's NOT wrong with it? You would basically be turning a profitable market where competitors invest to offer services to a government regulated low profit utility that no one will want to invest in. Taxes up. Innovation down. Prices up. Back to the good old Ma Bell days.
Sarcasm? Deal with it. Most of my posts are non sarcastic except when it seems to be called for by the question. |
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