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

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In article <4cdc5622$0$29280$c3e8da3$88b277c5 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>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.

Well bless you Mr. Bush but I don't believe Mr. Bush smart enough to
know what any of the above meant.  Both FCC and Congress were wined
and dined to get to what these providers wanted of them.  However, if
Bush had anything to do with this (of course, he'd have to sign a new
bill into law) then, I applaud him.  My internet access has, over the
past decade and a half, gone from dialup to an IDSL service of 144kbps
at a significant cost to a T1 loop of 1.544mbps at $630/month, to the
DOSCIS-2 offering me 30mbps for $75/month, to a DOCSIS-3 offering me 
100mbps $100/month.  A no brainer as to who benefitted here!

Here in the US, high-speed internet is quite ubiquitous and low cost.
You need to stop decrying and insulting the US because your country is
too busy finding fault below the 49th parallel instead of above. ;)



>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.

A(ssholes)On-Line is no loss in my book.



>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.

Well, the competition here has worked.  The cable cos were and still
are eating the Telcos for lunch in the high-speed internet offerings
biz.  FioS (Fast Internet Offered Someplaces) isn't available in most
areas (like in mine, for instance) because moronic Verizon squandered
their opportunity, not because of legislation.

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