[asterisk-biz] Futures of the telecoms business.

[Ignacio Ramos]

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2008/2/2, Andres Paglayan <andres at paglayan.com>:
>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 02:42 -0500, Alex Balashov wrote:
> >> Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> >>
> >>>     Lewis says telcos don't innovate and always accidentally caught
> >>> up with
> >>> outside innovation, that telcos act like they've got a "god given
> >>> right"
> >>> to make profits just because they've invested money in networks.
> >>> That IP
> >>> "telephony" is really beyond telephony into "the future of
> >>> communications", that the IP convergence is where new money will
> >>> come
> >>> from as voice and SMS profits decline. That there's huge new
> >>> opportunities that telcos aren't able to even think about
> >>> tapping, or
> >>> care about until others show how. That voice is about to change
> >>> after
> >>> 100 years, in combination with some other info, the huge
> >>> oppportunity.
> >>
> >> On the other side, there are a lot of CLECs, ITSPs and small
> >> independent
> >> ISPs that seem to feel they have a "god given right" to make profits
> >> despite _not_ having invested in networks, build-out, or any kind of
> >> value-creating CAPEX other than resale infrastructure...
> >>
> >> Don't get me wrong, I like this category of the industry, I'm
> >> fundamentally on their side.  But it still bears pointing out.
> >
> >       I think the difference is that these telcos have the means to
> > *enforce*
> > their "god" given "right" to profits, because they physically control
> > the infrastructure that CLECs have the merely "1996 Telecom Act" give
> > *legal* right to exploit. Lots of people think they have made-up
> > rights,
> > but the telcos are unique in the power of their prayers, and the tank
> > divisions to back them up.
> >
> >       One sweeping illustration is the telcos current campaign to get
> > retroactive immunity for several years of serious violations of the
> > Constitution and FISA. Before that's even pulled off, they're also
> > announcing plans to police content for "piracy", an even more
> > fundamental violation of the laws not to parse content. Of course
> > all of
> > that lawbreaking is to protect their god given right to profits, for
> > which they're now buying indulgences. Maybe that "god" is really the
> > other guy, who's more into contracts signed in blood.
> > --
>
> they own the transport media,
> it's like being the city traffic controller and owning the streets at
> the same time.
>
> The political change needed to achieve every building to be connected
> to the network
> using plain tax resources and make the layer 1 belonging to e.g. the
> County
> is so far to happening that I doubt is possible without a revolution.
>
> If that utopia ever occurs,
> then a fully decentralized peer-to-peer network based on peer trust
> to node connection might happen.
>
> I know you'll say you could it now, but no, you really can't.
>
> may be some day the "right to communicate thru the internet with a
> reasonable bandwidth" becomes a human right.
>
>
> >
> > (C) Matthew Rubenstein
> >
> >
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