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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (31421)	9/19/2009 3:57:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 46821

Peter, it's about time there was a price war to cut out all the wasteful spendthrift ways of the telecom-entitled who believe they should have huge salaries, perks, spend fortunes on marketing flim-flammery and all sorts of dross: < With revenue growth in mobile down to the low single digits in the U.S., the players are fighting for market share with a weapon that hurts the entire industry: low price. > Look at the airline industry for comparison. Everyone thought there had to be high prices, fancy meals, and lots of drama and wearing of hats and big salaries and stuff. Then along came Ryanair and others who figured out that people actually want a bus ride to somewhere. A moment's glance at the wireless industry web sites and you can see how hopeless they are. They are indecipherable. A price war is a great idea. But there aren't too many network operators. 4 isn't many. You could include Globalstar, Iridium some Wi-Fi operators and others as "national". There are enough that there's plenty of scope for a price war. A price war won't hurt the entire industry. It will hurt those who have been living high on the hog and should be redeployed to something more suited to their talents. A price war will be great. There will be a winner or three from a price war and business practises will be more attuned to what customers actually want rather than what "marketers" insist that they get [an expensive load of flim flam]. Mqurice PS: I'm pondering the NZ government's fibre plans.