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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5072)	2/4/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

I don't think you're wrong. Just give them a chance. They will out-of-hand refute all the benevolence they are trying to show when obedience to their free market wisdom is resisted in all quarters. "It's not appropriate to write such rules", yet. Fairness has to be applied. That was your thesis. Given the socialist tendencies rapidly rising in the country, I'd bet every time that you will be right. The actual thing preventing them from applying their divine wisdom is their holy war against the RBOCs. They can't win that war without encouraging alternatives that effectively break the existing stalemate. Once broken they can go back to the great work of legislating fairness. Everything you are saying is the intrinsic reason why we must have free markets and we must avoid any attempt to make them fair. They are fair by default. Trying to add more ignorance only makes them unfair. Decisions must be made by individuals, not by benevolent all-seeing experts. They can't see anything as they just stated in their socialistic manifesto. It doesn't matter whether the individuals are corporations with tons of power or mom and pop. It is the insidious nature of markets to dole out things fairly and evenly. When individuals pursue designated agendas of favorable states, mom and pop get the shaft. This is incomprehensible to university professors. They have the pretense to knowledge that their great intellects can solve it. They believe this all the while teaching their students that you can't do exactly what they are trying to do. As I have repeatedly said it is the universities from which all the ignorance flows.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5072)	2/6/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 29970

To Frank: Have much appreciated your thoughtful analysis of why the FCC leadership is unable to regulate using past models. And at least sitting on their hands follows the first dictum of doctors - do no harm. In the real world, is not wireless the only practical long term competition to cable and/or wire of all flavors? The movement ahead in terrestrial wireless is accelerating right now. The 3rd generation of wireless is all about data after all. In addition, satellite services are just getting off the ground (well maybe - depending on improving launch success). Isn't this the way competition will actually occur? Looking at local vs long distance is much too narrow IMO. But actually I am pleased the FCC is still focused there and not on the big picture. Not that the FCC could do much to stop progress in wireless, but if past is prolog the attempt would at least slow needed developments. Chaz