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Re: Deja Vu [Was: Re: So why don't US citizens get this?]

  • From: Max Tulyev
  • Date: Sun Jul 27 07:19:19 2008

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 <[email protected]> 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/[email protected])