[Info-vax] Not all HP jobs have gone to India!

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> 
> Wow.  Things must really be horrible up there in the Great White North.
> 

Having been involved in net neutrality related fight, yes, things are
bad with our current government (a clone of the Bush regime) ensuring
the monopoly telco/cable get what they want (eliminate the small
competitors), and the government claims this is to strenghten competition.


> Here in the states, with Telcos and cable regulation, they act as single
> monopolistic entity.  Your myth of big gov't control looking out for the
> little constituent voter is, yet again, bashed to bits.

Which si why I said that in north america, it isn't a democracy, it is a
corpocracy. You may get to vote, but governmnets cater to the
corporations' needs, not to the people's needs.


While the USA isn't as bad as Canada yet, the telco/cable want to
convert the internet into a cableTV like subsciptioon model. Remember
that as people move from watching TV to watching stuff on the internet,
those cmpanies will lose revenue as people start dropping channels from
their subscription and eventually dropping cable TV alltogether. They
are working to prevent that.

cable/telco didn't mind the internet ruining the traditional travel
agency business. It didnt affect them. But when the internet starts to
disrupt their own legacy businesses, they will choke the service down to
make it unattractive for the amsses to switch. (or will charge so much
for usage on the internet to compensate for lose cableTV revenues)


A governmnment who believes in free enterprise. innovation and
competition would ensure that new entrants to the ISP business can
survivce and provide an alternative to cable/telco. Such competition
would force the legacy cable/telcos to accept the loss of their legacy
TV distribution business and focus on a competitive internet offering.
Yes, it measn drop in ARPU and profits. But it ensures survival.

Without competition, the legacy telco/cable can protect their legacy
business and prevent innovation in the entertainment distribution industry.

A competitive internet will be extremely disruptive to the entertainment
distribution industry. Not just cable/satellite, but also broadcast TV
stations, especially smaller local ones.