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Old 07-24-2007, 07:46 AM
Nurhisham Hussein
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Default Re: US telecommunications industry regulation needs a serious rethink

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Originally Posted by ADBrown
I think you overstate this.
I don't doubt that this works in certain localities, but...

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Originally Posted by ADBrown
In fact, there's just three...
...why should all three be subsidised? At the same time? And if there were four, or five or six...all of'em would get the subsidy. That makes little sense. AllTel made $386 million off these subsidies in the last four years, and it's all coming out of consumer pockets.
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