[106353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Deja Vu [Was: Re: So why don't US citizens get this?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Tulyev)
Sun Jul 27 07:19:20 2008
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:58:56 +0300
From: Max Tulyev <president@ukraine.su>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080726.215837.8155.1@webmail11.vgs.untd.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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 <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
>
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)
