Comments on: competition http://imprompt.us/2006/competition/ Computer Science and Teaching and Other Ancillary Things Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Peter http://imprompt.us/2006/competition/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Peter Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/competition/#comment-49 <p>Very little discourages them from doing so, but they serve very different markets in different ways, so the hope is that a combined company will NOT actually be more efficient. We do, however, want them to for allicances instead of strictly compete. And if you want people to form alliances, than you need at least 3 players. Current FCC theory is that different media can provide this, and that we don't need to break up ma bell again. We shall see.</p> Very little discourages them from doing so, but they serve very different markets in different ways, so the hope is that a combined company will NOT actually be more efficient. We do, however, want them to for allicances instead of strictly compete. And if you want people to form alliances, than you need at least 3 players. Current FCC theory is that different media can provide this, and that we don’t need to break up ma bell again. We shall see.

]]> By: Wes http://imprompt.us/2006/competition/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Wes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/competition/#comment-48 <p>Does anything discourage two of the big three from forming a coalition, thereby reducing the effective number of providers?</p><p>Also, some telco exec in this month's Wired decried the neutrality legislation, talking about how different uses of the Internet carried different requirements, that his company should be able to adapt, and that it was extremely unfair to prevent them from doing such. What's your take?</p> Does anything discourage two of the big three from forming a coalition, thereby reducing the effective number of providers?

Also, some telco exec in this month’s Wired decried the neutrality legislation, talking about how different uses of the Internet carried different requirements, that his company should be able to adapt, and that it was extremely unfair to prevent them from doing such. What’s your take?

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