Re: Syngenta law suit

Posted by sotxbill on January 22, 2017 at 13:00:02 from (104.5.24.112):

In Reply to: Syngenta law suit posted by 8850dave on January 21, 2017 at 05:11:33:

"""""I do think they need to change how the deal with monopolies. Ma Bell was gouging consumers.""""

You just totally rewrote history.

Bell was a government regulated monoply who was totally controlled by the government and the fcc. The profits were highly controlled and regulated for a 30 year payback on all its investements. The were used to provide UNIVERSAL SERVICE to the entire nation, rural and urban. Business' where charged much more than costs so that residences were below cost. The government objective was to build out a national communications system, which could only be done in a protected environment. Otherwise only cities would have phones and rural areas would have NEVER had phones. It was the government who decided to encourage competition in the 70s.. that destroyed the regulated phone system. The competition..... would then only go after the cities and businesses and not do any business in the rural areas. the competition was allowed to reused bell system lines at a loss the the regulated phone company. The regulated phone companies at that point refused to put any more money in a company that allowed the competition to use its lines... at a loss. Western Electric, Bell Labs, Avaya, all where shut down or sold off. All the cable factories and equipment plants were shut down or sold off. The regulated telephone switches running today are using parts from the 1980s and older. So far, no new company has come in and offer to provide telephone switching at a loss, especially to rural areas. The so called ma bell companies have moved on to cellular, fiber, tv, and other businesses where they were allowed to make a profit and not have to sell to its competition... at cost or at an loss. The regulate portion is down to less than 25% of its size and is slowly dying. In some states they have filed to stop all NEW telephone circuits from be put in... Meaning you have to get VOIP or some other service.. that is no longer a dedicated hard wired circuit.. to a telephone switch. The new service is why and how the robo callers get into the system as there is no way to tell where they are really located or what country they are from. The come in through the internet. Good news is that the internet has NOT been regulated yet.... but they are trying hard and will soon be controlling it. On the new unregulated internet, you have so far not seen anyone going out to all the farms, so they must rely on service from cell towers or satellites, or local microwave hops as the "build out" will NOT pay back in two years or less. In a very few cases, some of the local coops have decided to build out, but they are protected under special laws and special rules so they actual get subsidies from the government via the universal service fee, so they are building out now via the free funds to prevent future competition from ever coming in. Ma bell was and is too big to get these funds. Verizon sold off all of it rural properties to a small(er) company who qualifies for the government subsidies. Thanks to the government... if your in rural areas, you may never see advanced services unless via cellular or microwave technologies. And yes in the city the copper plant is not being replaced and only fiber will be placed for new services.. because fiber does not have to be shared with your competition and sold at cost. Copper plant does.

How bout you do all the farming and sell me your crop at your cost.. so I can then resell it and make money. You have all the risk and I will undersell you as I have no expenses, loans, taxes, labor, unions, equipment, storage buildings etc..etc.. etc..

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