[49622] in Cypherpunks
Re: Tell me whats wrong with this
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Feb 9 06:51:23 1996
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 06:46:04 -0500
To: lunaslide@loop.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 01:00 AM 2/9/96 -0800, lunaslide@loop.com wrote:
>It is particularly the CDA which boils my blood. One other concern,
>however, is that the lifting of restrictions on who can compete for what
>will result in mergers and buyouts of internet providers and that when only
>a few major companies own the bulk of the industry, the consumers will
>suffer from content restriction, technological lag and possibly price
>gouging. I note the car, oil, software and media industries as a few
>examples.
The total number of firms is greater and the average size in these firms is
smaller than in the past.
Average institutional size in America has been declining since the late 1960s.
http://www.ios.com/~lroth/clips/bussiz.html.
DCF
