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| reply to unclemelba
Re: Who cares?
Give me a break! BTW, why not register and identify yourself? The analogy with FedEx by the last poster is an excellent one, and a good example of why these VoIP company's should exist. The existing bells had the money and the resources to see this technology coming. They could have done the initial heavy lifting toward making this technology viable for their own business plan transition, but they didn't. Instead, they did nothing and now whine about "unfair competition" as free enterprise unfolds around them.
As for the regulations, most of these were put into place when they were the only game in town, commanding their compulsory use by the population at large. If any thing should change, it should be a lessening of the regulation for the existing bells rather than increased regulation for new companies entering the market with vastly different technologies. Most blacksmiths lost their vocation when automobiles came into being, and this situation is no different. Times will change, methods will change and progress will march on. Some choose to engage in futile retro-ism and inevitably become history, while others embrace technology and change and remain part of the present. You choose. |
