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Technology Stocks : FCC Regulations
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To: Francis Gaskins who wrote ()4/8/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (2) of 54
 
>Randy Carlson, telecom analyst at Boston's Yankee Group, said in an interview, "If you discriminate between service providers based on how they transport voice, then you are providing a false incentive to Internet telephone telephony..."If Internet telephony is an economic alternative to quality, circuit- switched voice then must prove itself on an equal playing field.<

This is so stupid. This analyst is obviously trying to stay on the good side of the bells so he can get information others can't. The bells have literally a 100 year headstart on the new emerging full service Internet companies. Why don't we have Randy Carlson risk his entire future on building a brand new, extremely expensive network to compete with the 100 year old baby bells monopoly.

The new IP full services network isn't even built yet. Once it is, then there will be lots and lots of competition for the bells (good for the consumer) and yet the government (FCC) is going to shoot themselves right in the foot to tax something that doesn't even exist yet. Hard to believe. I was certain the FCC would blunder and now it appears they may. Typical moronic thinking by the government. Short term increases in taxes that may damage the newly emerging data network that would really force the bells to compete and give the US a major competitive advantage by having a robust, high bandwidth data network.

I hope some in Washington has some sense and kill this tax proposal by the FCC.
MikeM(From Florida)
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