To align it more closely with the telecom world, consider the following. The city gave you an exclusive license to operate a grocery for 100 years, but you refused to accept credit cards, had manual doors, and rang up all prices by looking them up in a book.
Since you were protected from new grocery stores, they forced you to allow a competitive store in your building, which accepted credit cards, had automatic doors, and had an electronic back end. Same thing other than the cost to lay new cables is almost insurmountable as opposed to just putting up another building. The key here is that you were protected from competition for 100 years. You shouldn't be allowed to build your empire under protection, then take advantage of said situation. You should have never had that protection. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 12/21/2010 4:30 PM, MDK wrote: > Jeromie, my socialist (or was that anarchist, I can't ever remember) friend, > how are ya? I was thinking about making a run to a wrecking yard up that > way and stopping by to see how things were going. > > Anyway, each time I read this "solution" it reminds me why it won't work. > > Let's say I move to Cove. Buy the biggest building in town, and put in a > grocery store. Along come the grocery neutrality advocates and require > that I set aside space in my store for all the people who want to compete in > the grocery market. If I knew that was going to happen, why would I be so > brain dead stupid as to invest all my money in the first place? And if it > happened after the fact, why would I continue to maintain the building and > keep it open, for the benefit of others? > > YOU see this as an opportunity to capitalize on monopoly created investment, > and getting your share of it. > > I look at it and notice that the business model it creates is insanity, and > no effort will EVER be taken to be market oriented and innovative. > > YOu're just trading one set of problems for a future set of intractables, > with EVERYONE invested into a system that's broken beyond hope. > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Neofast, Inc, Making internet easy > 541-969-8200 509-386-4589 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> Right there you prove what many want. The last mile should not be held >> by someone with stakes in what drives OVER that road. >> Lets make the last mile open to all ISPs who want to build out to the >> CO. I would drop in VDSL in my town TODAY if I COULD >> get access to the CO but the FCC took that away from us. >> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
