Jim, your views on France's standardization of nuclear power generation is intriguing to me. I immediately drew a set of comparisons concerning related issues in telecomms.
Would you argue that an across-the-board standardization treatment of telecommunications, right down to the vendor and apparatus levels, is equally imperative to that of power generation in France?
Or, because of the differences with regard to safety issues, they are different, and telecom should continue to "enjoy" a diverse, pluralistic existence, fostered by innovation, and in the case of the Internet, experimentation?
In another post on LMT I began to explore - but held back, for some inexplicable reason - what the effects of unrestricted competition has done to an otherwise achievable level of efficiency in the wireless technologies, due to a limited amount of available spectrum and the high number of purveyors carving it up in different and nonconstructive (perhaps destructive) ways.
Do you see a set of issues here that are similar to those of nuclear power generation? I'm interested in reading your views, as well as Ray's and others', on this.
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