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To: elmatador who wrote (11590)	6/26/2001 9:28:23 AM
From: Crossy	Read Replies (1) of 12823

Elmat, quite right - actually the first time I start to think alongside Nader's lines <g> Maybe that's because those ILECs are regional quasi-monopolies.. At least the ill-fated Tauzin-Dingell act is headed towards the crapper. They call it euphemistically "broadband relief" bill or like that. Not only a hyperbole but a smokescreen also. It's not the first time that entrenched monopolies with a good "lobbying link" to legislators- seek relief from competition Maybe we all can learn from history: in Michael A. Noll's book "Introduction to telephones and telephone systems" which I can only recommend everybody to get his hands on, the author gives a terrific overview over the deregulation battle since it started (last chapter). By 1976, after feeling the effects of agile competitor MCI getting more and more serious, AT&T literally wrote the CCRA- Consumer Communications Reform Acts and introduced by one of its shills in congress. That bill would have wiped out all competition, it would even have outlawed hooking up of "foreign" (non Bell) end user equipment (CPE) on behalf of the customers. However this resulted in a forceful PR backlash and consequently AT&T found itself fighting against the whole public. They shouldn't have even touched this pandora's box becuase as a consequence lawmakers suddenly became more inrerested with the monopoly's structure. In 1982 the FCC mandated all CPEs to be "detariffed" by AT&T opening up all out competition in the CPE market striking another blow to AT&T. In 1984 the "modified final judgement" - AT&T's self inflicted split into the entities we know today (RBOCs, T, LU) was instituted. It can be directly traced back to the CCRA's PR debacle. Can history repeat itself ?? rgrds CROSSY

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