Shidan wrote: > mile. Telecom deregulation is a very bad thing, almost as bad as
All deregulation is bad and good depending on circumstances. They deregulated the banking industry in Australia more then a decade ago, due to the limited number of banks this went from everyone getting reasonable interest on accounts and no bank fees, to virtually no interest, no service etc etc etc and huge bank fees. Then came the credit unions, and for a while they took custom away from the greedy banks and offered interest and no bank fees but some credit unions now have more bank fees then banks and in some cases banks have reduced the fees, but no where near what we used to get. On the other hand in the US there is lots and lots and lots of banks and deregulation to some extent works well, competition with bank fees etc, but any problems you get screwed over unless you have a cupboard fully of lawyers handy, in Australia due to regulations we have an ombudsman to keep the banks in order without needing a boat load of money to deal with their stuff ups. Obviously it's hard to have lots and lots of last mile telcos so in the case of telcos I can't see how lack of deregulation with last mile telcos would ever be a good idea, in fact I wish the Australian govt had been smart 10 yrs ago and dealt with trying to get competition into the Australian market in a much smarter way, but oh well we just got a new govt promising all sorts of things, we'll see how that works out, not sure I should be holding my breath since it relies on existing telco last mile copper. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
