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In article <4cdbf3d3$0$2152$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
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>> Wow.  Things must really be horrible up there in the Great White North.
>> 
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>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.

You stop at nothing to slur the US.


>> 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.

In the US, the current Telcos and Cable Co. are regulated under the 1996
Telecommunications Act (signed into law by William Jefferson Bush) which
can be found beginning with 47USC151.

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