Labor now supports media merger, Net dereg (fwd)

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 at 10:38am Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> Me-- I miss big bad Ma Bell, which benefitted consumers
> tremendously for decades.  Productivity was high, prices
> fell continuously and the poorest customers benefitted
> most clearly.  Competition has brought few benefits.

On this we agree.  I would love to see a REGULATED monopoly,
but not the oligopoly that exisits now.

DSL is not a tarriffed service and the RBOC's only began to
provide it when they couldn't put off the ILEC's any longer.
So in this sense, competition did work.


> So given the complete lack of evidence of any benefits
> from competition, I will hail the expansion of union
> jobs as a progressive gain.

And I'll be happy with the further consolidation of the
telecom industry when it is either nationalized or
meaningfully re-regulated.

--
no Onan

Undefeated, everybody goes home