AT&T Uneasy with Clearwire Portion of Sprint-Softbank Deal
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Ever notice how when you add every thing Up the wireless plans are pretty much the same price?
stevelvl said:
Any thing that weakens the market position of ATT is better for the consumer in the long run. Ever notice how when you add every thing Up the wireless plans are pretty much the same price?
Why just AT&T? Verizon is a good amount bigger then AT&T is. you hurt at&t to much and verizon is going to kill everyone. We WANT at&t and verizon to be big. this means a better coverage and service because they have more resources to build a better network then multiple little guys. SOME monopolies are a GOOD thing, (water, gas, electricity) Maybe cell service..?? I'm just saying there are benifits to a monopoly. Imagine having one carrier worldwide.??? All the phones could be built to just work on one te...
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As far as cell phone regulation goes, there really has to be a big problem first before somebody will step in to fix it, and thus far, there may be a problem, but it's not a big problem. There isn't enough suffering yet for anybody to step in to change anything.
By the way newphoneguy, stfu!! LOL
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(2) I do believe that government intervention with cellular will happen in next decade, unless the industry self-regulates and VZW & AT&T voluntarily sell off large portions of their operations to new competitors. Just like Ma Bell.
(3) If you think import tariffs are the way to help the average American, you're not familiar with the dynamics of international trade:
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CellStudent said:
The American people (and most of the rest of the world) will not tolerate living in daily fear of death and destruction,or having TSA-like passage points placed every 10 miles down every interstate.
My only point was that the global economy (or aka money) trumps the politics so if a one governing body makes more sense to the global economy then a one world (or large central governing force for the major powers anyways) then that is what will happen. Who cares if we like the french or not. Money makes the choice these days..
(if it were just about the USA as a country we'd build a build wall around our borders, drill oil in ...
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1. You have to have approval to start any wireless company MVNO or operator.
2. The government license the spectrum and determines when and where you can use it. They also limit the amount of companies that can operate in any given geographical area.
3. FCC mandates minimal service levels to carriers, if they are not met the carriers face fines. This includes every thing from minimal sellers to maximum hold times.
4. The FCC mandates other carriers be allowed to roam onto carrier networks.
5. FCC mandates the shearing of carrier resources.
6. The FCC tells carriers which devices they can and can not have. They also tell Carrier what features thos...
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stevelvl said:...
In the US the government has stepped in to regulate the wireless industry.
1. You have to have approval to start any wireless company MVNO or operator.
2. The government license the spectrum and determines when and where you can use it. They also limit the amount of companies that can operate in any given geographical area.
3. FCC mandates minimal service levels to carriers, if they are not met the carriers face fines. This includes every thing from minimal sellers to maximum hold times.
4. The FCC mandates other carriers be allowed to roam onto carrier networks.
5. FCC mandates the shearing of carrier resources.
6. The FCC tells carriers which devices they can and can not have. They a
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2. in terms of spectrum the FCC mandates that there can be no more than 4 nationwide carriers and 3 regional carriers in any given aria and that any carrier cannot own more than 40% of the spectrum licenses. When companies want to swap or buy spectrum they have to get FCC approval to make the transaction to make sure they do not violate these guidelines and other companies can petition against it.
3. In 2011 Tmobile was threatened by the FCC when staff ...
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people tend to believe that cell phones and coverage are some God given right or a necessity
For the majority of the population, cell phones are nothing more than an elective luxury
We lived without them prior to the invention and we could live without them now
Social interaction and business was conducted for centuries without cell phones
Suffering 🙄
newfoneguy said:
Yea. I wonder when the government is going to take control of the cell phone usage. I wonder when the one world government is coming..?
Funny. Keep it up, I like a good laugh. Don't listen to that guy who told you to stfu.
The only one-world government that had any chance of succeeding is an Islamist state, and there are way too many guns in North America for that to ever happen!
As for government taking over cell phone usage, if VZW and AT&T keep behaving the way they have for the past 3 years, I can see major intervention happening before the decade is over.
newfoneguy said:
read my other post. Tell me what you think. im interested.
I'm sorry, but you have 4 other posts on this board left earlier this morning. I'm not sure which one you're talking about...
https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/discuss.php?fm=m ... »
The post explains it.
I believe that you must understand this as the only portion of the comment you elected to not quote was the following portion which made this clear:
stevelvl said:
The duopoly of ATT-Verizon sets the stage of the entire US wireless market. Any thing that would weaken that has great potential to benefit the consumer by creating greater competition between the carriers.
Your comment reveals that you are a kool-aid drinking AT&T fanboy, who can't be taken any more ser...
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vikes0115 said:
Your comment reveals that you are a kool-aid drinking AT&T fanboy, who can't be taken any more seriously than those who believe Verizon can do no wrong.
Rather than type everything again. You can go look at the other post i wrote. But Honestly, I'm not much of a Kool-Aid guy. I find it to be too sweet with a fake flavor. I prefer a nice homemade lemonade over a Kool-Aid anytime. Also I currently have sprint and though I respect both Verizon and AT&T for their great business practices you can't blame them for it. I think you missed my point. I did not say Verizon was perfect either rather, you missed including Verizon in your statement. Both Verizon and AT&T are huge so you have stated Ver...
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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/ »
Seems from this that we are definitely using the web more and more for entertaining purposes vs the first web services that were mainly used for the sharing of knowledge between scientists and computer nerds of the Vacuum tube days. Its a shame we focus more on being entertained then learning...
I'd like to avoid forcing more regulations on any industry, but Verizon and AT&T are very, very close to engaging in monopolistic behaviors and this must not be permitted to happen.
newfoneguy said:
why shouldn't they be allowed to grow past 20%?
Because FREE markets only work when there is ample consumer choice. When there are fewer than 3 comparable providers of any good or service, the market is no longer "free" even if it can technically be labeled "capitalist" or unregulated.
newfoneguy said:
what about things like electricity, water, sewage?
Those are all government run utilities. those are not privately owned companies.
stevelvl said:
Those are all government run utilities. those are not privately owned companies.
I'm not sure which country you live in, but my electricity and natural gas are provided by private corporations, not government utilities.
At my parent's home, they even had their household water supplied by a private company until 20 years ago when the owners decided to exit the business and sold the company to the city. Small private water companies still exist in many parts of the country.
Jarahawk said:
All are private entities who have been granted monopolies and pretty much raise rates at their leisure. Take it or leave it.
That I know of they all are private and should be is its illegal (even though they bought out gm somehow....) for the government to own a company for obvious reasons. They HAVE been granted monopolies but CANNOT raise rates at their leisure. As being a monitored monopoly the government has to ok any rate changes the company would like to impose.
newfoneguy said:
I am also very curious does this include services like water, electrcity, and sewage?
CellStudent said:
No firm in any industry should be permitted to control more than 20% of the market share without serious scrutiny of their operations.
I was very careful to include the highlighted part above. Serious scrutiny basically amounts to some form of regulation, whether it's imposed by a government, labor union, or trade association.
Big businesses have to be constrained by something. Ideally, they should be constrained by their competitors, as in a free market system. Quasi-monopolistic industries cannot rely on the ideal solution,...
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"A government that takes money from Dave to give to Tom will always get the Support of Tom."
I worked in the electricity business with DTE long enough to know that there is a lot of wasted money and resources because DTE is the monopoly energy provider in Metro-Detroit. Free market insures companies spend their resources and money more effi...
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Power corrupts.
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