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Originally Posted by jammies
But the government is interfering with the rights of corporations to fleece the customers!
In all conscience I cannot support this bill - just because the big companies have bought out all the smaller players and divided up the country between them in a cosy little arrangement where your "choice" is limited to which carrier you would like to overpay for the same crappy service, doesn't mean the government should intervene to attempt the rectify the situation. All hail our oligopolic telco rulers!
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Interesting angle but, I don't think the companies all played on a level playing field. The government gave some the monopolies or at least let them play with enough advantage that they couldn't help but overwhelm the competition. The results have been drastically higher prices then the States which are still high by european standards.
If you feel the government shouldn't interfere with how these monopolies "fleece" perhaps an alternative would be to let anyone in who wanted to compete against them; including the big American companies. Barring that I think the government has responsibility to control them just like utilities.