Ustwo

Based on the current choises for my telco, and internet provider, this is a far cry from the Ma-Bell days in terms of needed regulation. Before we go regulating an industry, it would be good to see what happens first.

Edit:Example I recall. About 5 years ago I was in an crappy apparentment with an even crappier cable company internet. The problem with living in an appartment is they get a contract with some crappy company (for money under the table or whatever) and I couldn't get the very good cable internet that everyone else in the area had. So I wanted to get DSL, but I was pretty far from the node. I was surprised because I was in a very high density area, in a solid middle/upper middle class town. What had happened was the state decided 'in fairness' to force the telco to sell bulk rate DSL lines to competitors who then would market them to the public. Sounds good, you get competition right? Wrong. What they were saying was 'SBC YOU do all the work, you take the risk, they get to profit off of your work.' SBC decided it wasn't worth the money to upgrade the equipment and they didn't put in any new nodes, so I got screwed (I had a friend working for SBC at the time which is how I found it out). So what would sound like a big victory to consumers and the internet hippies, really fucked a lot of people over.

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