If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and erect poles and string wires and pierce every home with cabling. The regulatory fiat that allows these companies to get their networks up and running is worth hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars.If phone companies want to operate in the __ree market,_ then let them: the FCC could give them 60 days to get all their rotten copper out of our dirt, or we__l buy it from them at the going scrappage rates. Then, let__ hold an auction for the right to be the next big telecomm company, on one condition: in exchange for using the public__ rights-of-way, you have to agree to connect us to the people we want to talk to, and vice-versa, as quickly and efficiently as you can.
Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
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Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and erect poles and string wires and pierce every home with cabling. The regulatory fiat that allows these companies to get their networks up and running is worth hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars.If phone companies want to operate in the __ree market,_ then let them: the FCC could give them 60 days to get all their rotten copper out of our dirt, or we__l buy it from them at the going scrappage rates. Then, let__ hold an auction for the right to be the next big telecomm company, on one condition: in exchange for using the public__ rights-of-way, you have to agree to connect us to the people we want to talk to, and vice-versa, as quickly and efficiently as you can.
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