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From: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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Subject: Re: An apology, and a question (about uucp in Germany)
Message-ID: <8440@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 23 Jun 89 11:25:36 GMT
References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <1433@laura.UUCP> <16720@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <4679@ficc.uu.net> <4680@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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In article <4680@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
>Without quarreling with Peter's suggestion, I would offer an alternative
>suggestion: that the hobbyists in *every* country where there's
>a State phone monopoly work to get that monopoly eliminated.
>Where the government (such as in these overly-united States)
>grants a private company such a monopoly, the need is to
>repeal that franchise.

The telecommunications monopolies in Europe are not private companies, 
but state-owned and state-run.

And it would probably be hard to find a majority for abolishing these
monopolies -- there's too many things tied up with them that "have always
been done this way", and modem users are very much in the minority.

And where in these United States does the gov't grant private companies
a telecomm monopoly? That wasn't even the case before divestiture, MCI, GTE
and others have been around since before then.
-- 
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