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Re: Verizon FIOS Driving Down Comcast Prices

oldhats — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:41:44 -0000

Exacltly, Paul. Competition helps everyone--even Comacast customers since they have to drop prices and improve service just to stay in business!

Re: Verizon FIOS Driving Down Comcast Prices

oldhats — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:55:36 -0000

Yea, I'm not sure that a comparison of current prices and speeds is valid. What we want is competition to bring prices down and quality of service up. And as tpwk said, it speaks volumes that Comcast is working so hard at keeping Verizon out of the market in NJ (and elsewhere).

Re: Net Neutrality, France and iTunes

oldhats — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:15:17 -0000

I like your comparison a lot, James...it makes a lot of sense to me. I really think we should allow the market to take care of itself--as it almost always does--and keep Congress' mits where they belong (far away from the internet!)

Re: Broadband Competition: An Anecdote

oldhats — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:15:25 -0000

Does anyone really beleive that competition isn't good for the consumer? It's painful for me to pay my cable bill every month when I know that there are better services out there that are being blocked from my area...

Re: So You Still Believe in Infrastructure Socialism?

oldhats — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:30:04 -0000

Congrats on getting FiOS in VA--I've heard nothing but good things. Unfortuneately, we're still waiting here in NJ (Verizon's home state!) to have access to the service.

Re: Here We Go Again

oldhats — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:46:02 -0000

It's not what I want, tpwk!

Re: The Daily Neut

oldhats — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:56:45 -0000

I'm sure your list of supporters know a lot about networks...that doesn't mean that they're not wrong. This isn't a fight between the evil telcos and the "little guy." This a fight between the telcos and the software giants like Microsoft and Google. Let them duke it out in the market. And let the telcos build the networks that benefit all of us.

Re: The Daily Neut - Part II

oldhats — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:59:10 -0000

Are you really surprised that the NYT doesn't "get" it?? Good, thoughtful analysis...I agree on all points.

Re: Network Neutrality - A Speech

oldhats — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:24:08 -0000

"why should congress not take preemptive action against this behavior?"

beause by and large, legislators don't understand the internet as a medium or as an industry. because burdensome regulations could very well stymie the college kids working in thier basement on the next big thing.

Re: Dorgan Doesn't Get It On Energy Policy

oldhats — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:44:57 -0000

The windfall profit tax "scheme" is always one that has perplexed me since one of the guaranteed outcomes is higher prices at the pump...hurting the very people its proponents claim to be protecting.  

Re: Dorgan Doesn't Get It On Energy Policy

oldhats — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:26:22 -0000

Opposition to a windfall profits tax is different than support for corporate welfare...I want government to get out of the way and allow American companies to compete and succeed on the global stage.  Seven of the 10 largest oil companies in the world are state-owned.  And retroactively taxing American companies because they've found success is the equivalent to a subsidy for those foreign-owned companies.  We need to be talking about how to decrease our dependence on foreign oil, not putting American companies at a competitive disadvantage!

Re: Dorgan Doesn't Get It On Energy Policy

oldhats — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:01:08 -0000

Rob, Your points are well made and well taken.  It strikes me as so odd that by "protecting" consumers from the oil companies with a WPT, the result is higher prices at the pump...paid for by the same people who are supposedly being protected. It's a head-scratcher.