mculbert
Macbot3000
join:2001-04-11
Clive, IA
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| reply to tiger72
Re: Public dissatisfied with ILECs
Actually all of us, our parents and grandparents paid for the telco's networks through years and years of taxes paid toward defense spending on the network. It's our network, only the telco's have the deep pockets for the bri... er, contributions.
The network was funded like the interstate highway system, but unlike the telco networks, on the interstate you are free to use who you wish to obtain your goods and services. Hell, if you want, you are free to use it to go get goods and services yourself! |
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JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA
| To clarify things:
The bells inherited the existing infrastructure in 1996 when things were deregulated and the existing bells went from public utilities to private companies that didn't have to spend a penny of investor money to build networks from the ground up. While parts of the networks have been updated, the bells have been on easy street by not having to start from scratch. So any time they say the networks are investor built, that's only a small part of the larger picture.
Deregulation really should have made separate network "operator" type companies and services companies out of the bells to begin with so as to prevent the debacle we have now, but that would have made too much sense.
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