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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
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Subject: Re: X on dial-in
Date: 15 Feb 1995 04:01:59 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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References: <3hcbuh$mm5@homesick.cs.unlv.edu> <2875614209@hoult.actrix.gen.nz>
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Bruce@hoult.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Hoult) wrote:
] It really amuses me when americans -- the supposed champions of
] capitalism -- think that the way to get low prices is regulations,
] price setting, allowable profit rates etc.
]
] Geez guys. Deregulate the industry. Let companies compete in each
] other's territory. Let the profit levels be set by whoever manages to
] drive their costs down the most for a given service, not by whoever
] manages to convince some regulator that higher costs deserve higher
] profits.
A monopoly is defined, under the Sherman anti-trust acts, not only
as a declared monopoly, but as "the wielding of monopolistic power
in the marketplace". A 70% marketshare is sufficient to qualify.
Deregulation would not make an RBOC any less the holder of a
monopoly: the limiting factor to being a competing regional telco
is the ability to get right-of-way to string the wires, and the
ability to pay to string the wires -- the major cost of which is
digging things up and filling them in.
I've often wondered why the utility companies don't get together
and build walk-ways with pipe and cable trays under the streets
for the amount the dig them up... especially in new developements.
One obvious answer is that it allows them to maintain their
monopoly if we were ever stupid enought to deregulate them.
After 200 years of practice, you have to figure that we've learned
something. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.