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CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:24:55 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:14:05 -0800 From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> CALLING THE NEXT TECH CHALLENGE Samuelson celebrates the choices consumers have these days for pay television, phone and high-speed Internet services and touts the coming "wave of the future" -- Internet phone service (VoIP). But new technologies create both opportunities and threats. VoIP, for example, could be a threat to the $125 billion local phone networks of Verizon, BellSouth, SBC, Qwest. Today's choices are due o the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but many companies still compete with lawyers instead of providing better, cheaper service. Samuelson concludes: "One way or another, the new technologies are coming. But it would be better if Congress encouraged them by phasing out the 1996 telecom act's outmoded regulatory requirements. Companies can compete with each other in two ways: by deploying their lawyers and lobbyists -- gaining competitive advantage through legislative and legal decisions -- or by providing new technologies that offer superior service, lower costs or both. It seems an easy choice." [SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Robert J. Samuelson] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25468-2004Mar25.html> Archives at: <http://Wireless.Com/Dewayne-Net> Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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