[Cialug] Iowa Municipal Telecom Legisation

[Michael Osten]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Jon Clemons wrote:

> The big play now is all the big Telco's trying to monopolize
> telephone, internet and TV so they can be the provider of
> all three services which if successful will shut down
> a lot of other businesses. They don't want Municipalities
> to take that market share away from them anywhere.

No, the big play now is all the big (and little) telco's trying to say 
alive when unregulated carriers start offering triple play services.  
You've got comcast/municipalities completely unregulated providing 2 of 
the 3, and planning on offering voice soon.  Tell me how that is a fair 
competitive environment, and good for the consumer?
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Michael Osten
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