TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Broadband, Content Provider Firms Fight Over Net Neutrality

Re: Broadband, Content Provider Firms Fight Over Net Neutrality

danny burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Wed, 8 Feb 2006 00:41:54 UTC

In <telecom25.58.1@telecom-digest.org> Jeremy Pelofsky
<reuters@telecom-digest.org> writes:

[ big snip ]

(quoting a news clip: )

> "You do deserve a return on your investment is the bottom line if
> you're going to build out these networks," the Nevada Republican
> said. "Otherwise, if you can't give them the return on their
> investment, Wall Street is not going to loan them the money to do
> this."

However, just because someone (some company...) "deserves a return"
does NOT mean, under the free enterprise system, that they are
_guaranteed_ a return.

There are way, way, too many groups, that have managed to get either
perpetual gov't (taxpayer...) handouts or, the next best thing (and
sometimes better) a gov't enforced monopoly or... a gov't mandated
price set. We don't need more.

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