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Old 12-16-2015, 05:08 AM
 
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Originally Posted by eye state your name View Post
Yes, and those rules are there because of the unfair competition that allowing the government (which regulates the utilities) to compete by using tax dollars to subsidize the "competitive" entity, while also setting the regulations that must be adhered to by the private company.

I really don't understand why people cannot see why this is a destructive practice and detrimental to a private sector economy!!


You are being complety dishonest as we do have to pay tax already on these services with the telecom cartels. The local gov already gets this tax from people anyway.


I say open the market up and allow more competition if you have a poor business model as in( the telecom gaints do) then you deserve to fail. I do believe that in this day and age "internet access" is now a basic utilities. For example where i live one side of the road uses only (A) provider and the other side B provider. What happens is (A) and (B) provider can not be free to gouge away at its customers because they dont have a choice or other options.. how is this fair?
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Old 12-16-2015, 09:55 AM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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Yet another example of a bought & paid for politician. Telco & Cable companies don't want competition. Looks like Rubio is their man.
"Rubio, who is raising campaign cash from the telecom industry for his presidential campaign, fired off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to allow states to block municipal broadband services."
Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband
Why just the other day I found out that Comcast was trying to ++==beep*&$#@!*&^*..*((^$??><!!!.. *click*
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