[106343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Deja Vu [Was: Re: So why don't US citizens get this?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Jul 27 01:00:39 2008
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:58:37 GMT
To: jgreco@ns.sol.net
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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- -- 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
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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