Comment Re: privatization isn't the answer (Score 1) 126
Indeed. In Canada, the telco had always been a government-regulated monopoly. And you heard all the complains I'm reading now.
Then they deregulated and slowly split up Bell until we arrived at a situation where we have a private, largely deregulated series of companies that exploit their control over the phone network to squish competition, especially in broadband.
They boost local phone rates (another monopoly area) to the point where poor people can't afford phones because they now have to compete with gazillions of long distance carriers and need to get money from somewhere.
Meanwhile, all this competition is slowly causing companies to leave the field or go out of business. Our two biggest cell phone companies have now merged, for example.
It's all leading back toward a monopoly again only this time it'll be totally deregulated and the company will control your landline, your cell, your internet and your TV.
Doesn't that just sound great.
Then they deregulated and slowly split up Bell until we arrived at a situation where we have a private, largely deregulated series of companies that exploit their control over the phone network to squish competition, especially in broadband.
They boost local phone rates (another monopoly area) to the point where poor people can't afford phones because they now have to compete with gazillions of long distance carriers and need to get money from somewhere.
Meanwhile, all this competition is slowly causing companies to leave the field or go out of business. Our two biggest cell phone companies have now merged, for example.
It's all leading back toward a monopoly again only this time it'll be totally deregulated and the company will control your landline, your cell, your internet and your TV.
Doesn't that just sound great.
