Re:There is NO competition (Score 1)

This is the exact argument we make when speaking with legislatures, city councils and economic development councils (which by the way, mostly dislike the ILEC's methods or subtle and/or direct threats) on why SBC needs to be prevented from just ripping out regulations. The profits many of the 3 large ILEC's receive from just wholesale is mind boggling when you pull the much of the inflated front line costs out it becomes mind boggling. Many of the companies that did choose to build out, data CLEC's like Rhythms's, Covad, etc that made the investments in CO facilities because the nature of their business required it were unable to accomplish it. Do consumers actually belive their phone and broadband prices will not go up when SBC etc are not watched!?