[asterisk-biz] The death of Free conference calls?

[david.cantera at ibsonecall.com]

steve, as usual... well put!
daveC
 


On December 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>
wrote:


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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Dovid Bender<asterisk at dovid.net
> [mailto:asterisk at dovid.net] >wrote:
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> > Anyone see this?
> > http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/uploads/file/ICC_USF%20Executive%20Summary%281%29.pdf
> >  
> > Look at page 5 section 17.
> > 

> 
> Got to love free markets....
> 
> Why should anyone have to subsidize broadband in the boonies?  It there is a
> market, it will be filled.
> 
> Some REGULATION is a good thing, but incentives should be dictated by the
> market, meaning it will turn a profit after the initial investment of build
> out.
> 
> I remember the Philly government wanting to blanket the city or at least
> center city with Wifi on the taxpayer's dime.
> 
> I spend alot of time in Philly and know some companies directly and many
> others indirectly that were in the process of doing this for profit, using
> their own resources.  They ran the numbers and figured with the cost of build
> out and the number of projected subscribers at a multi tiered price point, it
> made business sense to invest.
> 
> Then the city steps up with grand plans to tax everyone and give it away, or
> maybe even charge for the service.
> 
> I didn't follow the outcome, but I personally know half a dozen people that
> had their money invested in a free market venture that made sense and were at
> risk of losing that market and all the money invested in market analysis,
> planning, and actually starting to roll out Wifi.
> 
> Needless to say, they were not too happy, and neither was I, even though I was
> not directly impacted, as a trend, the government makes it harder and harder
> to meet the entry barriers, then you have to compete with them?
> 
> Like USPS, it loses good money over bad and competes with FedEx and UPS.  It
> will never be allowed to fail, but I am not so sure about FedEx or UPS.  The
> government might try to bail them out or whatever, but I would think it would
> make more sense for them to bring them under USPS and have something that was
> designed to profit, not just deliver parcels.
> 
> Anyways, enough ranting about government intrusion on consumer (businesses
> included) affairs.
> 
> Just pick up my trash, be around to put out fires, plow the roads, keep them
> in working order.  Stick to the basics that the citizens need to be able to
> have a free market.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve T

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