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Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:52:21 GMT
..and life is probably going to get a lot more interesting for service providers. All today, we have leaders in the field with completely opposite views of the word: U.S. Broadband Policy Exists -- And Works, Claims NTIA's Gallagher http://www.advancedippipeline.com/169600336 [and] Nortel chief: U.S. needs new broadband vision http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/23/HNnortelchief_1.html And just to make life more fun, it looks like there's an effort afoot to get VoIP consumers to pay (read: tax) into the USF: New taxes could slam Net phone users http://news.com.com/New+taxes+could+slam+Net+phone+users/2100-7352_3-5842237.html So, aren't you glad that life isn't boring? ;-) - ferg -- "Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com> wrote: You forget the third choice the AT&T taught us so well before the big breakup: Less broadband at higher prices. Just look at how hard it has been to get Qwest to fulfill their promises of more broadband outside of the cities in return for less state control over prices. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Current thread:
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger, (continued)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Golding (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joel Jaeggli (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Simon Waters (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Steve Gibbard (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Larry Smith (Aug 23)