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Re: Another Point Of View (Round 2)
"I foresee" a long time before the LECs face any serious competition
for telpehone service that doesn't run over thier copper wires. I can't
wait for facilities based competition to come. I have plenty to do, I
have lots to do, and I hardly need any excuses to justify my salary. (do
you have a clue how much public interest work pays? ) jamie
I'm in Geneva today on the WIPO meetings on digital copyright, database
portection, and other bad ideas. jamie
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Bill Frezza wrote:
> Hmm. Let me ask a question to determine the extent to which we are arguing
> over means rather than ends. Your answer may also help other people on this
> list get a true picture of what the CPT is up to.
>
> I foresee a day when the entire telecommunications industry is completely
> deregulated, much like the PC industry. When this happens, any company will
> be able to sell (or not sell) any service it chooses to any customer it
> chooses at any price the market will bear. The state PUCs will be out of
> business, the FCC will be shrunk down to being a registrar of deeds to
> spectrum and an enforcer of property rights, and lobbyists like yourself
> will no doubt be off aggravating someone else. The justice department will
> be solely concerned with chasing companies that engage in force or fraud
> and congressmen will lose their ability to solicit millions in
> contributions from the companies they are regulating. Any forms of
> telecommunications welfare the voters are foolish enough to support will be
> explicitly labeled as such and will be distributed to the so-called
> "have-nots" directly on a means-tested basis, rather than cycled through
> fat corporations sucking up to the public trough.
>
> The sooner this happens, the sooner the bloated, protected, unionized
> incumbent Local Exchange Carriers will have to fend for themselves rather
> than run to the regulators to guarantee their profits, doing a little
> "please don't throw me in the briar patch" dance with the retinue of
> symbiotic lobbyists like yourself that are helping to perpetuate monopoly
> in the name of ending it.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Bill Frezza
>
>
>
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