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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (171537)10/10/2002 8:15:36 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
You want me to stay on topic? Fine. Let's go back to your post - the one I originally responded to.

-- have posted for many years that the RBOCS treatment of
-- the new dot.coms was not only the single most important

Nuts! The dot.coms failed because they were earning no money. They mystery isn't why they failed, but how they managed to sucker so many poeple into the game before they did.

I was railing (including on Silicon Investor) against RRRR -- a publicly traded website developer, and funder of dot.coms -- BEFORE it zoomed up to 90. Of course it since sank, did a reverse split, and sank again. It was always obvious to me the dot.com thing was phony. And you're blaming their failure of RBOCS?!?

wow.

-- 130 years and these people who are protected gave us the
-- Princess Phone

The break up dates back to 1984 -- so you can't measure their policies by whether they were likely to foster high-speed internet access, in which no business person was interested back then. And as I pointed out, the fact the bells offered ISDN back then shows how much tech they had -- a lot of it, like picture phones, way before anyone was ready.

-- And the poor companies like worldcom who were dumb
-- enough to believe that the telephone deregulation act
-- was something more than shuck and jive got burried
-- deeper than campaign finance reform.

Worldcom was a badly run SCAM with $29 billion of dollars they misspent and stole. And their services were really poorly run. They deserved to fail.

- Charles
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