Jim, I agree with you in the main, concerning the exigent nature of conditions driving the incumbents' actions. I happen to think that, with the exception of enterprises in major cities, many of their wireline businesses will be spun off voluntarily at some point to loopco land, when they become distressed enough, or when it can be demonstrated in terms that Wall Street understands that diminishing returns are all that exist, so as to not impinge on the rosier prospects afforded stockholders by the wireless side of the business. But that's another discussion.
They're going about it in all the wrong ways, imo. Instead of acknowledging 21st Century dynamics and embracing the psychology of an ever-evolving marketplace, as opposed to the staid conditions that prevailed during the last century, they are digging themselves deeper into their silos and bunkers at a time when users demand to be not only the consumers of content and services, but producers of it, as well. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Henry To: Kevin Mark , [email protected] Sent: Fri Mar 17 8:35 Subject: Fwd: Multichannel News -AnalystsQuestionBellInvestments] Kevin, No, I never stated "that under no circumstance a public company can become a common carrier? " and no, I don't believe that. However I do believe that a private company may operate and utilize their assets as they see fit as long as they stay within the law. Whitacre's stated intentions fit within current law. Otherwise, you would not see legislation NOW being introduced to regulate the Internet. Again, I don't think it is a wise strategy, but these large telcos are desparately trying different things as an attempt to avert disaster. They own vast aging copper infrastructure that is becoming obsolete as the world migrates from circuit switched to packet switched technology. They need to spend vast sums of money in an attempt to build IP based optical networks and they need to do it before their revenue stream from the copper plant completely dries up, all the while seeking new revenue sources and trying to stem the bleeding as their traditional voice customers continue to migrate to cable companies at an ever increasing rate. Jim On Fri Mar 17 00:34:10 PST 2006, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:17:53PM -0500, Jim Henry wrote: >> Well spoken. I disagree with your goal, but you elucidate it >> well. I've said >> many times that I disagree with Whitacre's stated intentions as >> what will >> surely turn out to be a lousy business strategy. However, I >> agree with his >> (company's) right to operate their network as he sees fit. >> Jim > > Hi Jim, > so you as an individual belived that under no circumstance a > public > company can become a common carrier? The Supreme Court seems do > differ. > Here is a quote from a Chief Justice(you can google for more > info): > "Looking, then, to the common law, from whence came the right > which the > Constitiution protects, we find that when private property is > "affected > with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only."... > So your contension is that the infrastruture of the internet has > no > interest to the public? or to most businesses in the US? cheers, > Kev > - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: > | > | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | > | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | > | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | > | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEGnSBv8UcC1qRZVMRAkgOAKCU4GjoMwLCDtrB2Sh5Rj55ko0QDwCfY0dJ > Wo5EtOX4YEG6uNM/Dh2cpDM= > =frfX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-587-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
