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Everybody,
Come on. Let us not enter into political discussion, OK ?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred" <ftonetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:18 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: OT:Two DSL Services
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> You mean like Japan before we rebuilt it ?
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> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Yuki Taga <yukitaga@xxxx> wrote:
>> >> Here in Japan, population density means that almost everyone has
>> >> access to reasonably priced 100 mbps glass. And since Japan
> tries
>> >> to balance market economics with at least some semblance of
>> >> egalitarianism, we city folk pay a small premium over what the
>> >> market would normally call for, in order to provide the service
> to
>> >> our country cousins at a price they can afford.
>> >>
>> >> Try getting that idea across in the States, and good luck. ^_^
>> >>
>> >> Yuki
>>
>> P> Again, only one point of view.
>>
>> P> During the 90's, so many US$ were poured into broadband
>> P> infrastructure, only to be margainilized by the US FCC which was
>> P> lobbied by other competing communications interests that competed
>> P> against nationwide broadband.
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>> But "nation-wide anything" is an anathema to US economic orthodoxy,
>> unless the market can do it without any regulation.
>>
>> P> Our major telecomunication providers were required by law (FCC
>> P> Requirements) to provide competing wholesale operations with
>> P> 'below cost' business rates of telecommunications for consumer
>> P> pricing.
>>
>> P> As a result, major US telecommunication providers just withheld
>> P> broadband from the market rather than give competators access to
>> P> the technology at below market cost rates.
>>
>> So, it sounds like it was a half-measure to me. Either broadband
>> access is a national goal, or it isn't. When you turn over natural
>> monopolies (utilities, etc.) to the private sector, you then
>> relinquish control over them. It's very difficult to have it both
>> ways. Of course they are going to act in their own self interest.
>> Why does this surprise?
>>
>> P> And so, here in the US, because of artificial governmental
> regulatory
>> P> policy, our major telecom providers have with-held broadband for
>> P> competative reasons (and self-defensive reasons).
>>
>> P> Once we are able to obtain fair FCC treatment of ownership
> rights,
>> P> then we will see fair distribution of broadband nationwide.
>>
>> P> Just My Opinion.
>>
>> You already have "fair" distribution from a purely economic
>> perspective.
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>> The question is, does "fair" imply anything else besides pure
>> economics. The orthodox capitalist priests are ready with their
>> answer, to be sure.
>>
>> Any ideology taken to its logical extreme becomes a pathetic
>> absurdity. One needs a sense of balance.
>>
>> Yuki
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