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

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
> You stop at nothing to slur the US.
>

I was referrihg to what is happening in Canada which is being copied
from what happened in the USA post January 17 2001.

> 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.

Early in the Bush tenure, the requirement for last mile access put in
the 1996 act, was removed to please AT&T, Verizon and cable companies
who had lobbied to have that part removed, arguing that this clause
reduced their investment in infrastructure and promising great things if
it were removed. AT&T promised to deploy VDSL2 remotes everywhere,
Verizon promised FIOS, and cable promised DOCSIS3 if the clause were
removed. The clause was removed.

AOL, which was trying to convert itself form a dial-up ISP to a high
speed one basically lost any hope of achieving this exacpt in a few
locations (such as Time Warner Cable areas, as Time Warner was now part
of same corporate family). For all practical purposes, AOL is history.



The telco/cable are trying to get the same thing done in Canada. Early
in the GW Harper tenure, the requirement to provide equal speeds to
indie ISPs was lifted. But that decision was reversed in 2008. Bell
Canada refused to comply. This is why indie ISPs are restricted to 5mbps
in Canada while the telco is offering up to 25mbps on its DSL stuff.

Bell Canada is using the exact same arguments as were used by At&T and
Verizon in its attempt to convince the canadian governmnent to remove
the requirement that it allow wholesale access at equal speeds.  I saw
the CEO of Bell Canada threathen the canadian government to stop
investing in Canada if that requirement for equal speeds were enforced.


Basically, what I aj saying is this: those governmnents who claim to
support competition and free enterprise end up supporting monopololies
to crush competition and free enterprise more so than governments who
make no such claims.