Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 14:58:59 GMT From: Robert Jacobson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: All AOS's Aren't Scum Message-ID: Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 476, Message 6 of 8 Lines: 18 Having been an alternative IXC customer in the past, I have to say that the service was great and the prices right. But these days seem to be passing as pressure on the independent's becomes tremendous. The politicians get in because they're invited in by one party or another. Exhorting the public (some would say, the masses) to "keep the politicians out" is good rhetoric but ignores the fact that it's probably a carrier who's inviting them in. Who that might be is your best guess. This all goes to show that the market works imperfectly. With or without public intervention, it seems we're on our way back to monopoly or, at best oligopoly/duopoly. History calls. Bob Jacobson