Deja Vu [Was: Re: So why don't US citizens get this?]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
The telcos might disagree... it's a free market... they're free to market whatever they want.
And they do. Rightfully so, I suppose. I think the issue that was being discussed -- which I shouldn't probably compel -- is the fact that questionable decisions have been in the U.S. regulatory process which favor monopoly interests. Free markets have a tendency to become "un-free" when monopolistic positioning becomes entrenched -- and even preferred by government bureaucrats. But allow to me apologize now for my non-technical response, although I feel compelled myself to point out the obvious. We just don't have the competitive choices we should, as consumers. What is old, seems to be new again, unfortunately. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIjABTq1pz9mNUZTMRAjy2AKCW+hRG+VKsTLqVdv48MyecZZClmwCeNe7I BSq9TB1EtsQqJwgl5/LaRag= =8Ovk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
even in deep Russia ETTH/FTTH networks bites big state monopolies. So I think just somebody is too lazy to do something :) Paul Ferguson wrote:
-- Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
The telcos might disagree... it's a free market... they're free to market whatever they want.
And they do. Rightfully so, I suppose.
I think the issue that was being discussed -- which I shouldn't probably compel -- is the fact that questionable decisions have been in the U.S. regulatory process which favor monopoly interests.
Free markets have a tendency to become "un-free" when monopolistic positioning becomes entrenched -- and even preferred by government bureaucrats.
But allow to me apologize now for my non-technical response, although I feel compelled myself to point out the obvious. We just don't have the competitive choices we should, as consumers.
What is old, seems to be new again, unfortunately.
$.02,
- ferg
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ -- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)
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