ah, and when comcast bought AT&T in 2002, they didnt have to pay taxes. That seems like a big subsidy, as they payed 50.6 billion USD for the transaction. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/04.27.05/byrne-0517.html
rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug On Monday 20 April 2009 20:22:39 Niles Collins wrote: > I always thought that the cable was being run from SA up the coast to the > middle east and then out to india. I guess I was wrong. I am going through > that right now with my internet connection. I just switched to Verizon Home > service and they run Fiber right to my house. It is terminated at a box > right next to my electricity and water. They use the existing cables wiring > to send the signal around the house. > > Their main issue with running the fiber network it that they don't want to > be forced by the government to sell their bandwidth to smaller companies in > order to create a fake market. The big cable company Comcast was forced to > sell space on their cable network and all the incumbent telcos Verizon > included has been forced to sell space on their phone networks. > > I can see their point. If I spent billions of dollars to build a fiber > network why should i be forced to sell space on it to competitors? If tax > dollars are used i can see the argument but not when I fund it myself. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
