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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: axial who wrote (14851)4/27/2006 10:59:26 AM
From: Bob Frankston  Read Replies (5) of 46821
 
I go into more detail in frankston.com.

My short response is that the key is to avoid getting into the box at all because the box itself doesn't have the concept of the Internet as a way of using the existing networks. The box was nailed shut in 1934 after centuries of presuming that each kind of message had its own special bits (or electrons).

The concept of a so-called tele/communications industry is little more than a cover story to protect the participants from antitrust enforcement. After all, at least Standard Oil of Ohio let us drive our own cars. The carriers try to force us to buy billable services (http://www.frankston.com/?name=AssuringScarcity).

The highest leverage point is to attack the defining premises of the industry. That may seem impossible but it's far easier than being forever mired in the fetid muck of the Regulatorium.

I'm working on short sound bites such as comparing broadband to running railroad tracks to each house instead of allowing us to make our own roads and drive. Perhaps such analogies -- imperfect though they may be -- will get through where technical explanations merely put the learned gentlefolk to sleep.

We must frame the debate rather than being on the defensive and begging for neutrality as a concession.
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