pkust
join:2001-08-09
Houston, TX
| Maybe it's time to turn back the clock
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.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | 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." |
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clecrupt9
join:2002-01-22
GA | reply to pkust
Yes, structural separation.... worth looking at.
How is it this has not already happened somewhere? |
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